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Ajax the Lesser
Ancient Greek mythological hero / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For the Marvel Comics character Ajax the Lesser, see List of Eternals.
Ajax (Ancient Greek: Αἴας Aias means "of the earth".[1]) was a Greek mythological hero, son of Oileus, the king of Locris. He was called the "Ajax the Less", the "lesser" or "Locrian" Ajax,[2] to distinguish him from Ajax the Great, son of Telamon. He was the leader of the Locrian contingent during the Trojan War. He is a significant figure in Homer's Iliad and is also mentioned in the Odyssey,[3] in Virgil's Aeneid and in Euripides' The Trojan Women. In Etruscan legend, he was known as Aivas Vilates.
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