Poseidon killing Ajax the Lesser

simple: Ajax the Lesser

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

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

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At the fall of Troy, she sought shelter in the temple of Athena, where she was violently abducted and raped by Ajax the Lesser.

Proteus then answered truthfully, further informing Menelaus that his brother Agamemnon had been murdered on his return home, that Ajax the Lesser had been shipwrecked and killed, and that Odysseus was stranded on Calypso's Isle Ogygia.

Ajax the Lesser raped Cassandra on Athena's altar while she was clinging to her statue.

Poseidon smites Ajax the Lesser, by Bonaventura Genelli ( 1798 – 1868 )

* Ajax the Lesser, who had endured more than the others the wrath of the Gods, never returned.

* Ajax the Lesser

* Ajax ( AKA Ajax the Lesser or Locrian Ajax )-Son of Oileus.

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

During the sacking and looting of the great city, the seeress Cassandra, daughter of Priam and Hecuba, clung to the statue of Athena, but the Lesser Ajax raped her.

He reported having seen Patroclus in the company of Achilles, Ajax the Lesser, Telamonian Aias, Antilochus, and Helen.

Oileus is best known as the father of Ajax the Lesser.

# Medon, half-brother of Ajax the Lesser and son of Oileus, king of Locris, by Rhene or Alcimache.

According to the Bibliotheca, no one had realised that Ajax had raped Cassandra until Calchas, the Greek seer, warned the Greeks that Athena was furious at the treatment of her priestess and she would destroy the Greek ships if they didn't kill him immediately.

The abduction of Cassandra by Ajax was frequently represented in Greek works of art, for instance on the chest of Cypselus described by Pausanias and in extant works.

When he tried to defend Cassandra from rape by Ajax the Lesser, he was killed, either by Peneleos, Diomedes or Neoptolemus.

The Sack of Troy ( Iliou Persis ) told the stories of the Trojan Horse, Sinon, and Laocoön, the capture of the city, and the departure of the Greeks pursued by the anger of Athena at the rape of Cassandra by Ajax the Lesser.

However, it begins first with the gods Athena and Poseidon discussing ways to punish the Greek armies because they condoned Ajax the Lesser for dragging Cassandra, the eldest daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba, away from Apollo's temple.

( From some ancient Greek paintings many people believe Ajax raped Cassandra, and the verb that Euripides used to describe Ajax's " taking " of Cassandra can also be translated as rape, but it does not directly say that in this story ) What follows shows how much the Trojan women have suffered as their grief is compounded when the Greeks dole out additional deaths and divide their shares of women.

Ajax the Lesser drags Cassandra from the Palladium.

Neoptolemus kills king Priam, even though he has taken refuge at the altar of Zeus ; Menelaus kills Deiphobus and takes back his wife Helen ; Ajax the Lesser rapes Cassandra and drags her from the altar of Athena.