Ajax

Family: Greeks · Role: hero · First appears: Fable 87

Life events

Ulysses receives Achilles’ armour after the Greek chiefs adjudicate the contest.(Fable99)
- With: Ulysses
- “The body of the chiefs is moved, and {then}, in fact appears what eloquence can do; and the fluent man receives the arms of a brave one.”
Ajax kills himself after losing Achilles’ armour.(Fable99)
- “{Thus} he said; and he plunged the fatal sword into his breast, then for the first time suffering a wound, where it lay exposed to the steel.”
Ajax’s blood produces a purple flower bearing letters of his name and lamentation.(Fable99)
- “And the earth, made red by the blood, produced a purple flower from the green turf, {the same} which had formerly been produced from the Œbalian wound.”

parent: Telamon “He alludes to Ajax, the son of Telamon, from whose blood, when he slew himself, a similar flower was said to have arisen, with the letters Αἰ, Αἰ, on its leaves, expressive either of grief, or denoting the first two letters of his name, Αἴας.”

rivals with Ulysses “After the death of Achilles, Ajax and Ulysses contend for his armour; the Greek chiefs having adjudged it to the last, Ajax kills himself in despair, and his blood is changed into a flower.”
parent: Telamon “being the son of Telamon”
siblings with Teucer “Teucer was the cousin of Achilles, being the son of Telamon, and the half-brother of Ajax”
enemies with Hector “Him demanding one with whom he might engage, did I alone withstand; and you, Greeks, prayed {it might fall} to my lot”

Extracted from the original text of The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Made with Rho MD.