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* Teucer, son of Telamon and half-brother of Ajax, stood trial by his father for his half-brother's death.
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Teucer and son
Telamon took Hesione as a war prize ; they were married and had a son, Teucer.
: This article is about Teucer, son of King Telamon of Salamis.
For Teucer, son of Scamander and Idaea, see King Teucer.
In Greek mythology Teucer, also Teucrus or Teucris (), was the son of King Telamon of Salamis Island and his second wife Hesione, daughter of King Laomedon of Troy.
When Hector was driving the Achaeans back toward their ships, Teucer gave the Argives some success by killing many of the charging Trojans, including Hector's charioteer, Archeptolemus son of Iphitos.
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.
Telamon took Hesione as a war prize and married her ; they had a son called Teucer.
He had a son named Periphetes, who features briefly in the Iliad as a well-loved warrior speared by Hector or killed by Teucer.
The father of Nicocles, the succeeding king of Salamis, he claimed descent from Teucer, the son of Telamon and half-brother of Ajax, and his family had long been rulers of Salamis, although during his childhood Salamis came under Phoenician control, which resulted in his exile.
: This article is about King Teucer, son of Scamander and Idaea, for Teucer, son of King Telamon of Salamis, see Teucer.
In Greek mythology, King Teucer ( also Teucrus ) was said to have been the son of the river Scamander and of the nymph Idaea.
Dardanus received land on Mount Ida from his father-in-law when Teucer died since he did not have a biological son.
Teucer and Telamon
Tros agreed ; Heracles succeeded and Telamon married Hesione, Tros ' daughter, giving birth to Teucer by her.
Telamon took Hesione as a war prize and married her, and she gave birth to Teucer by him.
Due to Ajax committing suicide at Troy, Telamon banished Teucer from Salamis for not bringing his brother home.
Ajax's father, Eurysaces ' grandfather, Telamon, was enraged when he found this out, thinking it dishonorable for them not to be travelling together and banished Teucer to Cyprus, where he founded the city of Salamis which he named after his home state.
After Telamon died, Teucer requested of Eurysaces ( now king ) to return, but Eurysaces would not do so.
Teucer and half-brother
He is the cousin of Achilles, the most remembered Greek warrior, and is the elder half-brother of Teucer.
During the Trojan War, Teucer was mainly a great archer, who loosed his shafts from behind the giant shield of his half-brother Ajax the Great.
The concept of using a shield to cover an archer dates to at least to the writing of Homer's Iliad, where Ajax uses his shield to cover his half-brother Teucer, an archer, while he would " peer round " and shoot arrows.
Teucer and Ajax
When the grammatical dual form of Ajax is used in the Iliad, it was once believed that it indicated the lesser Ajax fighting side-by-side with Telamonian Ajax, but now it is generally thought that that usage refers to the Greater Ajax and his brother Teucer.
Ajax often fought in tandem with his brother Teucer, known for his skill with the bow.
Ajax would wield his magnificent shield, as Teucer stood behind picking off enemy Trojans.
In the Iliad he was the father of Greek heroes Ajax the Great and Teucer the Archer by different mothers.
In Sophocles ' Ajax, Calchas delivers a prophecy to Teucer suggesting that the protagonist will die if he leaves his tent before the day is out.
When the Trojans attacked the wall newly built by the Greeks, Sarpedon led his men ( who also included Glaucus and Asteropaios ) to the forefront of the battle and caused Ajax and Teucer to shift their attention from Hector's attack to that of Sarpedon's forces.
Teucer, Ajax ’ s brother, arrives in the Greek camp to taunting from his fellow soldiers.
Teucer sends a messenger to Ajax ’ s campsite with word of Calchas ’ prophesy.
Ajax also wishes for the first to find his body to be Teucer, so that he is not found by an enemy and his body left without a proper burial.
Tecmessa is the first to discover Ajax impaled on his sword, with Teucer arriving shortly after.
The play ends with Teucer making arrangements for the burial ( which is to take place without Odysseus, out of respect for Ajax ).
Teucer and stood
Because of his half-brother's suicide, Teucer stood trial before his father, where he was found guilty of negligence for not bringing his dead half-brother's body or his arms back with him.
Teucer and by
The Mycenaeans quickly penetrated the Aegean Sea and by the 15th century BC had reached Rhodes, Crete, Cyprus, where Teucer is said to have founded the first colony, and the shores of Asia Minor.
Statue of Teucer by Sir William Hamo Thornycroft
The temple of Zeus Salaminios whose cult was established, according to tradition, by Teucer himself, must have existed since the foundation of the city ; the extant remains date to the late Hellenistic period.
All accounts agree that Dardanus came to the Troad from Samothrace and was there welcomed by King Teucer and that Dardanus married Batea the daughter of Teucer.
# Medon, a " cunning craftsman " of Cilla, husband of Iphianassa and father of Metalcas and Zechis, of whom the former was slain in the Trojan War by Neoptolemus, and the latter by Teucer.
He fought in the Trojan War and was slain by Teucer.
* Periphetes, a Trojan who was killed by Teucer.
Strabo ( 13. 1. 48 ) records, but discounts, the claim by " some more recent writers " that Teucer came from the deme of Xypeteones in Attica, supposedly called Troes ( meaning Trojans ) in mythical times.
Since Teucer had been directed by an oracle, before leaving Crete, to build a settlement in the place where he should be attacked in the night-time by an enemy spring from the earth or “ where the earth-born should attack them ”, he resolved to settle there.
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