Ajax
Warrior prince
who was huge and strong, but slow in speech. His father was king Telamon of
Salamis. Ajax was considered the second greates warrior after Achilles, and
he was the one who carried the hero's dead body back to the camp while Odysseus
held the Trojans back.
Ajax fought well in the Trojan war, but when refused Achilles armous after
the hero's death, he swore to kill Agamemnon and Menelaus. He was the struck
by madness by the goddess Athena, who did not want this to happen, and comitted
suicide in the way that was to be the Roman ideal : falling on his sword.
In the kingdom of death he kept his grudge.
