Telamon
mythological figure · 7 works · 9 mentions · 11 anchored passages
King of Salamis · aged father · father · my father · your father and mine
in the texts
Tusculan Disputations
Mythological exiled hero whose loss of homeland and fortune is used to test the adequacy of Epicurean consolation.
Will the setting forth and the thought of this kind of life be able to relieve Thyestes, or Aeëtes, of whom I spoke a little before, or Telamon, driven from his country, an exile and in want?
To this life, then, will you recall that Telamon, to relieve his distress?
For a kingdom was at my command — that you may know from how high a place, with what resources, from what things fortune slipping has befallen me.
Ajax
Ajax's father, a glorious elder whose expectations intensify Ajax's shame and whose advice is later reported by Calchas.
O Telamon, unhappy father, how heavy a curse upon your son awaits your hearing, a curse which never yet has any life-portion of the heirs of Aeacus nourished but his!
Your spear ravaged my country to nothingness, and another fate has brought down my mother and father, giving them a home in Hades in their death.
And Ajax, even at the time he first set out from home, showed himself foolish, when his father advised him well.
On the Nature of the Gods
Mythological figure (from a tragedy, likely Ennius's Telamon) who states that if the gods cared, the good would fare well and the bad ill.
while Telamon in one verse settles the whole topic, why the gods neglect men:
Orations
Mythic hero, victor in the discus throw.
Orpheus in the lyre, Heracles in the all-in fight, Polydeuces in boxing, Peleus in wrestling, Telamon in the discus, Theseus in the armed contest.
Helen
Father of Teucer and Aias; banishes Teucer from Salamis after Aias's death.
My name is Teucer, my father is Telamon, and Salamis is the land that nurtured me.
My father Telamon.
The Trojan Women
Legendary king of Salamis who joined Heracles in the earlier sack of Troy, recalled by the chorus in their closing ode.
O Telamon, King of Salamis, the feeding-ground of bees, who have your home in a seagirt isle that lies near the holy hills where first Athena made the grey olive branch to appear, a crown for heavenly heads and a glory to happy Athens, you came, you came in knightly brotherhood with that great archer, Alcmena’s son, to sack our city Ilium, in days gone by,;
Evagoras
Son of Aeacus, father of Ajax and Teucer, and participant in the expedition against Laomedon.
To each of these two were born sons—to Telamon Ajax and Teucer, and to Peleus Achilles, and these heroes gave proof of their valour in the clearest and most convincing way:
Telamon won the meed of valor in an expedition with Heracles against Laomedon, and Peleus, having distinguished himself in the battle with the Centaurs and having won glory in many other hazardous enterprises, wedded Thetis, the daughter of Nereus, he a mortal winning an immortal bride.