Joost van den Vondel got into trouble because of a play Palamedes, in which he was reminding to the beheading of Johan van Oldenbarneveldt.
Then follow the death of Palamedes, the plan of Zeus to relieve the Trojans by detaching Achilles from the Hellenic confederacy, and a catalogue
Written in the form of a conversation between a Thracian vine-dresser on the shore of the Hellespont and a Phoenician merchant who derives his knowledge from the hero Protesilaus, Palamedes is exalted at the expense of Odysseus, and Homer's unfairness to him is attacked.
Palamedes primarily painted battle scenes that were mentioned in Cornelis de Bie's Het Gulden Cabinet.