Ajax (son of Telamon)
Also known as: Ajax · Family: Athens · Role: tribal eponym · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 5
Ajax, son of Telamon, is identified as the third Ajax. In Book 1, Chapter 28, Teucer defended himself before Telamon, denying involvement in Ajax’s death. In Chapter 35, Ajax’s death was followed, according to the natives of Salamis, by the first appearance of a distinctive flower on the island; his grandson Philæus later became an Athenian and handed Salamis over to Athens.
In Book 5, Chapter 22, Ajax is named opposite Deiphobus. Book 8, Chapter 15, identifies Teucer as his brother.
Relationship record
Life events
- Teucer defended himself before Telamon, denying involvement in Ajax’s death.(Book 1 · Chapter 28 · 📍 Piræus)
- Ajax died, after which a distinctive flower first appeared on Salamis.(Book 1 · Chapter 35 · 📍 Salamis)
- “And the natives of Salamis say that after the death of Ajax a flower first appeared on their island:”
Book 1 · Chapter 5
- parent: Telamon “the third Ajax, the son of Telamon”
Book 1 · Chapter 28
- with Teucer (Teucer defended himself against involvement in Ajax's death.) “Teucer first (the story goes) thus made his defence before Telamon that he had had no hand in the death of Ajax.”
Book 1 · Chapter 35
- younger kin: Philæus “Philæus, the son of Eurysaces and grandson of Ajax, became an Athenian and handed it over to Athens.”
Book 5 · Chapter 22
- rivals with Deiphobus “and Deiphobus opposite Ajax the son of Telamon.”
- with Deiphobus (interaction) “and Deiphobus opposite Ajax the son of Telamon”
Book 8 · Chapter 15
- parent: Telamon (The famous Telamon of Aegina is identified as Ajax's father; the local namesake is not.) “As one was the father of that Elephenor who led the Eubœans to Ilium, and the other the father of Ajax and Teucer, no one will credit that they fell in this battle.”
- siblings with Teucer (Ajax and Teucer are the sons named with their famous father Telamon.) “As one was the father of that Elephenor who led the Eubœans to Ilium, and the other the father of Ajax and Teucer, no one will credit that they fell in this battle.”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.