Ajax son of Oileus

Also known as: Aias, Oileus' son / Aias, son of Oileus / Oileus' seed / Oileus' son / that undaunted man / the Locrian king / the son of Oileus / the strong man · Family: The Greeks · Role: warrior · First appears: Book I · Part 3

In Book I, Aias son of Oileus killed Derinoe with his spear. In Book IV, he passed Teucer to win the footrace; later, the two competed in archery, and Teucer won the contest and received Troilus’s arms.

In Book VI, Aias wounded Polydamas with his spear. During the fighting, Aeneas struck him with a stone and knocked him unconscious, and his men carried him to the Achaean ships. In Book XIII, he killed Amphimedon; at Athena’s temple, he assaulted Cassandra, and the goddess vowed vengeance.

In Book XIV, Athena struck Aias’s ship with a thunderbolt, shattering it and casting its crew into the sea. At Caphereus, Poseidon hurled the rock Aias clung to into a chasm, crushing him to death.