Ajax the Great

Statue of Ajax the Great, ca. 505–500 BC.

The Argument between Ajax and Odysseus over Achilles' armour, by Agostino Masucci

Ajax the Great or Aias (Ancient Greek: Αἴας) son of Telamon, was a hero from the Trojan War. He was a cousin of Achilles. Ajax died by suicide. This happened after Achilles died and Ajax was in a contest with Odysseus to see who would receive Achilles's armour. Ajax lost the contest.

Ajax The Great Media

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  The Belvedere Torso, a marble sculpture carved in the first century BC depicting Ajax.

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  The suicide of Ajax. Etrurian red-figured calyx-krater, c. 400–350 BC.

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  Ajax battling Hector, engraving by John Flaxman, 1795

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  Achilles and Ajax play a game of dice on this early 5th-century BC lekythos, a type of oil-storing vessel associated with funeral rites

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  A kylix with a depiction of the suicide of Ajax.

Related pages

• Ajax the Lesser