Achilles and Ajax play a board game withknucklebones on this late 6th-century lekythos, a type of oil-storing vessel associated with funeral rites
- "Aias" redirects here. For other uses of this name, see AIAS and Ajax (disambiguation).
Ajax or Aias (Greek: Αἴας, gen. Αἴαντος) was amythological Greek hero, the son of Telamon andPeriboea and king of Salamis.[1] He plays an important role in Homer's Iliad and in the Epic Cycle, a series of epic poems about the Trojan War. To distinguish him from Ajax, son of Oileus (Ajax the Lesser), he is called "Telamonian Ajax," "Greater Ajax," or "Ajax the Great". In Etruscan mythology, he is known as Aivas Tlamunus.
Ajax the Great
In Homer's Iliad he is described as of great stature, colossal frame, the tallest and strongest of all the Achaeans, second only to Achilles in skill-at-arms, and Diomedes to whom he lost a sparringcompetition as well as the 'bulwark of the Mycenaeans'. He was trained by the centaur Chiron(who had trained his father, Telamon, and Achilles' father Peleus), at the same time as Achilles. Apart from Achilles, Ajax is the most valuable warrior inAgamemnon's army (along with Diomedes), though he is not as cunning as Nestor, Diomedes,Idomeneus, or Odysseus. He commands his army wielding a huge shield made of seven cow-hides with a layer of bronze. Most notably, Ajax is not wounded in any of the battles described in the Iliad, and he is the only principal character on either side who does not receive personal assistance from any of the gods who take part in the battles.
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