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: Αἴαςcode: grc is deprecated ) son of Telamon,^[1] 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.^[1]

Ajax The Great Media

The Belvedere Torso, a marble sculpture carved in the first century BC depicting Ajax.
Suicide of Ajax. Black-figure vase painting by Exekias, ca. 540 BCE. Currently in the Château-musée de Boulogne-sur-Mer in France.
Ajax battling Hector, engraving by John Flaxman, 1795
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

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 timelessmyths.com Archived 2009-02-12 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved on 25 November 2007

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