Ajax or Ajax the Great, son of Telamon, was a character in Homer's epic poem "The Iliad", part one of his writings "The Odyssey" being the second. Ajax, according to legend, w
…as a mighty warrior of greece, who went mad and sacrificed hundreds of animals in bloodshed with his sword, and then finally, tragically, falling on it himself (he committed suicide.) He was recruited to fight in the battle of Troy, and dueled a man of the city. In the tale, they gave gifts to each-other before the duel. Ajax gave him a belt, and the man gave him the sword he later used to kill himself. That man was strangled by Achilles riding on a chariot. He tied him to the end and dragged his limp and dead body around the walls and gates with Ajax's belt. Ajax was the king of Salamis, an island in the Saronic Gulf near Piraeus. (MORE)