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Ajax of Salamis brought twelve ships against Troy, and stationed them alongside those of the Athenians. (Homer, Illiad, 2.557). A man of great stature, daring and self-confident, he was generally called Telamon Ajax, because he was the son of Telamon. When the armour of Achilles was awarded to Ulysses instead of to himself, he was turned mad from vexation by Athena, and pierced himself armpit with Hector's sword.
Ajax the Less, the king of Locris in Greece, was also at the siege of Troy. The night of Troy’s fall, he assulted Cassandra, the prophetic daughter of Priam. They say that was the cause of his loss at sea. |