Ajax son of Telamon
mythological figure · 2 works · 9 mentions · 36 anchored passages
Ajax · great Ajax · Aias · Great Ajax · huge Ajax · mighty Ajax · the great Ajax
spoken of as
1 expressionAias“Ajax, son of Telamon”1 mention
Isthmean (Greek)
wide-ruling Aias, awesome in the war-toils of the people.
in the texts
Iliad
Great Achaean warrior from Salamis, ranked as the best fighter in the army while Achilles stays out of battle.
He was not so great, nor nearly so great, as Ajax the son of Telamon.
Ajax brought twelve ships from Salamis, and stationed them alongside those of the Athenians.
Of the men, Ajax, son of Telamon, was much the foremost so long as Achilles' anger lasted, for Achilles excelled him greatly and he had also better horses;
Isthmean
Son of Telamon, Greek hero at Troy, whose suicide and subsequent vindication by Homer's poetry are recounted, along with the story of his prophesied birth and naming.
wide-ruling Aias, awesome in the war-toils of the people.
There is no city so barbarous or so strange in its speech that it does not know the fame of the hero Peleus, the fortunate in-law of gods, or of Aias and his father Telamon.
But he is honored throughout the world by Homer, who set the record right concerning all his excellence and told it with the staff of his divine words, for posterity to play.