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)
Cassandra
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In Greek mythology, Cassandra, also spelled Kassandra or Casandra, was a Trojan priestess dedicated to the god Apollo and fated by him to utter true prophecies, but never to be believed. Cassandra liv
Ajax the Lesser
…of Oileus and the nymph Rhene, and is also mentioned among the suitors of Helen. After the taking of Troy, he rushed into the temple of Athena, where Cassandra had taken refuge, and was embracing the statue of the goddess in supplication. Ajax violently dragged her away to the other captives. According to some…
Woodcut illustration of Cassandra's prophecy of the fall of Troy (left) and her death (right), from Giovanni Boccaccio's De mulieribus claris, printed by Johann Zainer [de] at Ulm ca. 1474.
"Cassandra and Ajax" depicted on a terracotta amphora, circa 450 BC.