Biography Ajax

Ajax (Greek AiaV) – the name of two Greek heroes that participated in the siege of Troy. – One of them, nicknamed Locrians or younger, the son Oileya king Lockroy. In chapter 40 lokriyskih ships, he joined the campaign against Troy. In the army of the Greeks, he was considered one of the bravest heroes, and in the speed yielded only one swift Achilles.

After the fall of Troy, he drew strength from the temple of Pallas Cassandra, who sought protection with the goddess, and dragged her to the camp, according to another variant, which first met in the Alexandrian poets, he even had defiled her in the temple of the goddess. In this he incurred the vengeance of the goddess, who sentenced him to death in marine waters. Odyssey, not to mention insulting to Cassandra, and transferring all of its arrogance, and anger Athens, relates that Poseidon would have saved him from the sea waves, if in turn, was not offended by arrogance hero.

A. The fate served as a plot for one of the tragedies of Sophocles, which did not reach us. – A. The second, called the Great, son of Telamon, king of Salamis, the mother's side the grandson Eaku. With 12 ships, he spoke out against Troy is Homer's bravest and most beautiful of the Greeks after Achilles. When the death of the Achilles, the armor of the latter were awarded not to him, and Odysseus, the anger and rage overwhelmed by the soul of the hero, his mind clouded and in despair he threw himself on his sword.

The tragic death of the hero was a favorite theme of the ancient authors. We know that its portrayed, and Aeschylus, but before we reached a tragedy of Sophocles. Plastic and paintings of antiquity also readily portrayed the exploits of both A. Wed Grigorevsky, A., hero of Greek. Poetry "(" Phil. Zap. ", 1867, ј5, 6, and 1868 ¼ 2).