Ajax the Great

File:Aphaia pediment Aias W-IX Glyptothek Munich 80.jpg

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

File:The Argument between Ajax and Odysseus over Achilles' armour, by Agostino Masucci.jpg

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

Ajax the Great or Aias (Ancient Greek: Αἴαςcode: grc is deprecated ) 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

• The Belvedere Torso depicting Ajax.jpg

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

• Exekias Suicide d Ajax 01.jpg

  Suicide of Ajax. Black-figure vase painting by Exekias, ca. 540 BCE. Currently in the Château-musée de Boulogne-sur-Mer in France.

• (11) Flaxman Ilias 1795, Zeichnung 1793, 186 x 283 mm.jpg

  Ajax battling Hector, engraving by John Flaxman, 1795

• Achilles Ajax dice Louvre MNB911 n2.jpg

  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

Related pages

• Ajax the Lesser