Ajax son of Oileus
Also known as: Ajax, son of Oeleus / the Locrian Ajax · First appears: Apollodorus, Epitome 3
🌐 Also appears in: The Iliad (as Ajax son of Oileus) · Greek Tragedy — The Same Myth, Three Voices (as Ajax son of Oileus)
Life events
- Ajax son of Oileus violated Cassandra as she clung to Athena’s wooden image.(Apollodorus, Epitome 5)
- With: Cassandra
- “And the Locrian Ajax, seeing Cassandra clinging to the wooden image of Athena, violated her”
- Ajax son of Oileus was drowned after Poseidon split the rock beneath him.(Apollodorus, Epitome 6 · 📍 Myconos)
- With: Poseidon
- “But Poseidon smote the rock with his trident and split it, and Ajax fell into the sea and perished; and his body, being washed up, was buried by Thetis in Myconos.”
Apollodorus, Epitome 3
- parent: Oeleus “Of the Locrians, Ajax, son of Oeleus: he brought forty ships.”
Apollodorus, Epitome 5
- with Cassandra (interaction) “the Locrian Ajax, seeing Cassandra clinging to the wooden image of Athena, violated her;”
- with Athena (interaction) “Calchas, who said that Athena was angry with them on account of the impiety of Ajax.”
- with Athena (interaction) “they were detained by Calchas, who said that Athena was angry with them on account of the impiety of Ajax.”
Apollodorus, Epitome 6
- with Poseidon (interaction) “Poseidon smote the rock with his trident and split it, and Ajax fell into the sea and perished”
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