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Ajax the Lesser | Ajax violates Cassandra's sanctuary at the Palladium ( mythology ) | Palladium: tondo of an Attic cup, ca.

Eurysaces in Greek mythology was the son of the Telemonian Ajax and the former-princess captive-slave girl Tecmessa.

A great number of the technologies and rocket systems used for developing the Nike Ajax were re-used for a number of functions, many of which were given the " Nike " name ( after Nike, the goddess of victory from Greek mythology ).

# REDIRECT Ajax ( mythology )

# REDIRECT Ajax ( mythology )

# REDIRECT Ajax ( mythology )

# REDIRECT Ajax ( mythology )

# REDIRECT Ajax ( mythology )

# REDIRECT Ajax ( mythology )

Amphora by Exekias, Achilles and Ajax ( mythology ) | Ajax engaged in a board game, c. 540-530 BC, Vatican Museums, Vatican City.

Ajax ( mythology ) | Ajax prepares for his suicide.

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Ajax ( mythology ) | Ajax, son of Telamon, preparing suicide.

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This was a reference to the muscular character Ajax of Greek mythology.

To distinguish him from Ajax, son of Oileus ( Ajax the Lesser ), he is called " Telamonian Ajax ," " Greater Ajax ," or " Ajax the Great ".

After Achilles, Ajax is the most valuable warrior in Agamemnon's army ( along with Diomedes ), though he is not as cunning as Nestor, Diomedes, Idomeneus, or Odysseus, he is much more powerful and just as intelligent.

Later, when Achilles dies, killed by Paris ( with help from Apollo ), Ajax and Odysseus are the heroes who fight against the Trojans to get the body and bury it next to his friend, Patroclus.

The identification of Ajax with the family of Aeacus was chiefly a matter which concerned the Athenians, after Salamis had come into their possession, on which occasion Solon is said to have inserted a line in the Iliad ( 2. 557 – 558 ), for the purpose of supporting the Athenian claim to the island.

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Ajax () was a Greek mythological hero, son of Oileus, the king of Locris.

He was called the " lesser " or " Locrian " Ajax, to distinguish him from Ajax the Great, son of Telamon.

In later traditions, this Ajax is called a son of Oileus and the nymph Rhene and is also mentioned among the suitors of Helen.

Ajax or Aias ( or ; ) was a mythological Greek hero, the son of Telamon and Periboea, and king of Salamis.

Ajax is the son of Telamon, who was the son of Aeacus and grandson of Zeus, and his first wife Periboea.

* Ajax the Lesser, son of Oileus, ruler of Locris and the leader of the Locrian contingent during the Trojan War.

Ajax son of Telamon laid waste the Thracian peninsula of which Polymestor, a son-in-law of Priam, was king.

* Teucer, son of Telamon and half-brother of Ajax, stood trial by his father for his half-brother's death.

It is usually thought to be a warlike song about Telamon's son Ajax, though some other commentaries thought it to be a mournful song about Telamon himself.

Hesione was taken home by Telamon, married him and bore him a son Teucros who would be half-brother to Telamon's son from his first marriage Ajax.

According to tradition the founder of Salamis was Teucer, son of Telamon, who could not return home after the Trojan war because he had failed to avenge his brother Ajax.

According to the foundation myth, the founder of Salamis is said to be Teucer, son of Telamon, who could not return home after the Trojan war because he had failed to avenge his brother Ajax.

According to the tradition followed by Sophocles in his play Ajax and by Euripides in his lost play Cretan Women ( Kressai ), Catreus found Aerope in bed with a slave and handed her over to Nauplius to be drowned, but Nauplius spared Aerope's life and she married Atreus, the son of Pelops, and king of Mycenae, though in the version of the story used by Euripides, she married Pleisthenes instead.

*" Father Jove, grant that the lot fall on Ajax, or on the son of Tydeus, or upon the king of rich Mycene himself.

He even got the better of Ajax, son of Telamon, in an armed sparring tournament, but the bout was called off prematurely.