The story of Palamedes death, and Nauplius' revenge was a popular one, by at least the fifth century BC.Sommerstein, p. 182. The tragedians Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides all wrote plays which apparently dealt with the story. Each had a play titled Palamedes.For Aeschylus: Sommerstein, pp. 182–189; Sophocles: LLoyd-Jones, 248–251; Euripides: Collard and Cropp (2008b), pp. 46–59. In addition, we know of two titles, Nauplios Katapleon (Nauplius Sails In) and Nauplios Pyrkaeus (Nauplius Lights a Fire), for plays attributed to Sophocles.Gantz, p. 696; Hard, p. 486; LLoyd-Jones, pp. 218–219. Though these are possibly two names for the same play, they are probably two distinct plays.LLoyd-Jones, 219, Gantz, pp. 607–608. If so, then Nauplios Katapleon might have dealt with either Nauplius' voyage to the Greek camp at Troy to demand justice for his son's death, or to his sail around Greece corrupting the Greek commanders' wives. In any case, Nauplios Pyrkaeus, seems certainly to have been about "Nauplius the Wrecker" and his lighting false beacon fires.
