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Ajax at first gets the better of the encounter, wounding Hector with his spear and knocking him down with a large stone, [8] but Hector battles on until the heralds, acting at the direction of Zeus, call a draw, with the two combatants exchanging gifts, Ajax giving Hector his "war-belt, glistening purple" and Hector giving Ajax his "silver ...
During the ten-year long Trojan War the Greek army sacked several cities in the northwestern coast of Asia Minor. During one of those raids Ajax the Greater killed the king, captured Tecmessa, enamored with her great beauty, [3] and kept her as a concubine. [1] She bore him a son, Eurysaces.
Ajax preparing for suicide in a depiction by the black-figure vase painter Exekias, ca. 540 BCE. Ajax, as he appears in this play, in the Iliad, and other myths, is a heroic figure, a "rugged giant", with strength, courage and the ability to think quickly well beyond the normal standards of mankind. He was considered a legendary character to ...
During the Trojan War, Teucer was mainly a great archer, who loosed his shafts from behind the giant shield of his half-brother Ajax the Great.When Hector was driving the Achaeans back toward their ships, Teucer gave the Argives some success by killing many of the charging Trojans, including Hector's charioteer, Archeptolemus son of Iphitos.
Ajax (Ancient Greek: Αἴας Aias according to Graves means "of the earth". [1]) was a Greek mythological hero, son of Oileus, the king of Locris. He was called the "Ajax the Less", the "lesser" or "Locrian" Ajax, [2] to distinguish him from Ajax the Great, son of Telamon. He was the leader of the Locrian contingent during the Trojan War.
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Numerous paintings on pottery have suggested a tale not mentioned in the literary traditions. At some point in the war Achilles and Ajax were playing a board game (petteia). [97] [98] They were absorbed in the game and oblivious to the surrounding battle. [99] The Trojans attacked and reached the heroes, who were only saved by an intervention ...
He was not alone, for with him were the two sons of Antenor, Arkhilokhos and Akamas, both skilled in all the arts of war." [24] While in Book 14, Acamas avenged the death of his brother, who had been killed by Ajax, by slaying Promachus the Boeotian. "But he knew well who it was, and the Trojans were greatly vexed with grief [akhos].