Ajax the Lesser

Reading notes

• Metamorphoses §12.383 Ajax son of Oileus

  The lesser Ajax, son of Oileus, who does not dare claim Achilles's arms.

• Metamorphoses §13.402 more moderate Ajax

  The lesser Ajax, son of Oileus, distinct from the great Ajax.

• Metamorphoses §14.452 Narycian hero, for a virgin torn from a virgin

  Ajax son of Oileus, from Naryx, who dragged Cassandra ('a virgin') from the altar of the virgin Minerva at Troy's fall; the goddess's anger fell on all the Greeks, not him alone.