AJAX (Gr. Alas)

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AJAX (Gr. Alas) , a

Greek

GREEK
GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

hero, son of 011eus, king of Locris, called the " lesser " or Locrian Ajax, to distinguish him from Ajax, son of Telamon. In spite of his small stature, he held his own amongst the other heroes before Troy; he was brave, next to Achilles in swiftness of foot and famous for throwing the spear. But he was boastful, arrogant and quarrelsome; like the Telamonian Ajax, he was the enemy of Odysseus, and in the end the victim of the vengeance of Athene, who wrecked his ship on his homeward voyage (Odyssey, iv. 499). A later story gives a more definite account of the offence of which he was guilty. It is said that, after the fall of Troy, he dragged Cassandra away by force from the statue of the goddess at which she had taken

refuge

REFUGE

as a suppliant, and even violated her (Lycophron, 36o, Quintus Smyrnaeus x111. 422). For this, his ship was wrecked in a

storm

STORM (in O. Eng..storm, and so in Du. and Low Ger.; in O. H. Ger. and mod. Ger.
Sturm
- STURM
- STURM, JULIUS (1816-1896)
; the root is probably that seen in " stir," to rouse, move, disturb, cf. Ger. storen)
STORM, THEODOR WOLDSEN (1817-1888)

on the

coast

COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

of Euboea, and he himself was struck by lightning (Virgil, Aen. i. 40). He was said to have lived after his death in the

island

land
- LAND
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land
- LAND
')

of Leuke. He was worshipped as a national hero by the Opuntian Locrians (on whose coins he appears), who always left a vacant place for him in the ranks of their army when

drawn

DRAWN

up in battle

array

ARRAY (from the O. Fr. areyer, Med. Lat. arredare, to get ready)

. He was the subject of a lost tragedy by Sophocles. The

rape

of Cassandra by Ajax was frequently represented in

Greek

GREEK
GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

works of art, for instance on the chest of Cypselus described by Pausanias (v. 17) and in extant works.

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