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.

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

In the Iliad he was the father of Greek heroes Ajax the Great and Teucer the Archer by different mothers.

Due to Ajax committing suicide at Troy, Telamon banished Teucer from Salamis for not bringing his brother home.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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, Ajax ’ s brother, arrives in the Greek camp to taunting from his fellow soldiers.

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 ).

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.

He was less productive as a poet than either Ennius or Accius ; and we hear of only about twelve of his plays, founded on Greek subjects ( among them the Antiope, Teucer, Armorum Judicium, Dulorestes, Chryses, Niptra, & c., most of them on subjects connected with the Trojan cycle ), and one praetexta ( Paulus ) written in connexion with the victory of Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus at the Battle of Pydna ( 168 BC ), as the Clastidium of Naevius and the Ambracia of Ennius were written in commemoration of great military successes.

According to Virgil, Teucer was originally from Crete but left that island during a great famine with a third part of its inhabitants.

Helen receives word from the exiled Greek Teucer that Menelaus never returned to Greece from Troy, and is presumed dead, putting her in the perilous position of being available for Theoclymenus to marry, and she consults the prophetess Theonoe, sister to Theoclymenus, to find out Menelaus ' fate.

He is the cousin of Achilles, the most remembered Greek warrior, and is the elder half-brother of Teucer.

Telamon took Hesione as a war prize ; they were married and had a son, Teucer.

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.

For example, Teucer, brother of Aias was supposed to have founded Salamis, and the Arcadian Agapenor of Tegea to have replaced the native ruler Kinyras and to have founded Paphos.

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.

: 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.

Through his mother, Teucer was the nephew of King Priam of Troy and the cousin of Hector and Paris-all of whom he fought against in the Trojan War.

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.

The rock injured Teucer, so that he retired from the fighting for a certain period of time.

In total, Teucer slew thirty Trojans during the war ; of those Homer mentions Aretaon, Orsilochus, Ormenus, Ophelestes, Daetor, Chromius, Lycophontes, Amopaon, Melanippus, Prothoon and Periphetes, as well as the aforementioned Archeptolemus.

After Ajax's suicide, Teucer guarded the body to make sure it was buried, insulting Menelaus and Agamemnon when they tried to stop the burial.

Teucer eventually joined King Belus II in his campaign against Cyprus, and when the island was seized, Belus handed it over to him in reward for his assistance.

Teucer founded the city of Salamis on Cyprus, which he named after his home state.

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