Ajax the son of Oileus
Role: hero · First appears: Book 3 · Chapter 19
In Italy, during the war between the Crotonians and the Locrians, Ajax the son of Oileus fought with the Locrians, whose kinship to the Opuntians led them to invite him to aid them. Leonymus attacked the part of the enemy army where he was stationed and was wounded in the breast; later, sent by the Pythian Priestess to Leuce to meet Ajax, Leonymus was healed there.
In Book 10, Odysseus urged the Greeks to stone Ajax for his rape of Cassandra, and Ajax hated him for it.
Relationship record
Life events
- Leonymus attacks Ajax’s forces and is wounded in the breast.(Book 3 · Chapter 19 · 📍 Italy)
- With: Leonymus
- “Leonymus the general of the Crotonians attacked that part of the enemy’s army where he was told that Ajax was stationed, and got wounded in the breast”
- Leonymus is healed on Leuce after the Pythian Priestess sends him there to meet Ajax.(Book 3 · Chapter 19 · 📍 Leuce)
- With: Leonymus
- “And the Pythian Priestess sent him to the island Leuce, and told him that Ajax would appear there and heal his wound. And in process of time getting well he returned from Leuce”
- Odysseus urged the Greeks to stone Ajax the son of Oileus for raping Cassandra.(Book 10 · Chapter 31)
Book 3 · Chapter 19
- enemies with Leonymus “when there was a war between the people of Croton and the Locrians in Italy, and the Locrians invited in Ajax the son of Oileus to aid them because of their kinsmanship to the Opuntians, Leonymus the general of the Crotonians attacked that part of the enemy’s army where he was told that Ajax was stationed, and got wounded in the breast”
- parent: Oileus “Ajax the son of Oileus”
Book 10 · Chapter 31
- enemies with Odysseus “And Ajax the son of Oileus hated Odysseus, because he urged the Greeks to stone him for his rape of Cassandra.”
- with Cassandra (Ajax raped Cassandra.) “And Ajax the son of Oileus hated Odysseus, because he urged the Greeks to stone him for his rape of Cassandra.”
- with Odysseus (Odysseus urged the Greeks to stone Ajax.) “And Ajax the son of Oileus hated Odysseus, because he urged the Greeks to stone him for his rape of Cassandra.”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.