Snake Island (Ukraine)
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Snake Island, also known as Serpent Island, White Island, Island of Achilles or Zmiinyi Island, is a Ukrainian island located in the Black Sea, near the Danube Delta, with an important role in delimit
2008 photo of the island
The lighthouse in the background in 1896
Rock outcrop of conglomerate on the island
Snake Island (Ostriv Zmiinyi) by Carlo Bossoli, 1856
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)