Ajax the Great
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Ajax or Aias is a Greek mythological hero, the son of King Telamon and Periboea, and the half-brother of Teucer. He plays an important role in the Trojan War, and is portrayed as a towering figure and
A black-figure amphora with Ajax carrying the dead Achilles. Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.
The Belvedere Torso, a marble sculpture carved in the first century BC probably depicting Ajax.
A copy of the 4th century BC fresco from the François Tomb, showing the sacrifice of Trojan slaves. Ajax the Great is the second from the right
The Argument between Ajax and Odysseus over Achilles' armour, by Agostino Masucci
Ajax the Lesser
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Ajax was a Greek mythological hero, son of Oileus, the king of Locris. He was called the "Ajax the Less", the "lesser" or "Locrian" Ajax, to distinguish him from Ajax the Great, son of Telamon. He was
Ajax the Lesser and Cassandra on an Attic-red figure cup, Louvre.
Scene from the Trojan War: Cassandra clings to the Palladium, the wooden cult image of Athene, while Ajax the Lesser is about to drag her away in front of her father Priam (standing on the left). Fresco from the atrium of the Casa del Menandro (I 10, 4) in Pompeii.
Ajax, 1820 painting by Henri Serrur
Ajax and Cassandra by Solomon Joseph Solomon (1886)