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Ajax the Great
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Ajax (mythology)
Ajax
or
Aias
( or ; ) was a
mythological Greek hero
, the son of King
Telamon
and
Periboea
, and the half-brother of
Teucer
. He plays an important role in
Homer
's
Iliad
and in the
Epic Cycle
, a series of
epic poems
about the
Trojan War
. To distinguish him from Ajax, son of Oileus (
Ajax the Lesser
), he is called "
Telamonian Ajax
," "
Greater Ajax
," or "
Ajax the Great
". In
Etruscan mythology
, he is known as
Aivas Tlamunus
.
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