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Telamon

deity earth Greek corroborated · 4

Telamon was the son of Aeacus and grandson of Zeus. He was the father of Ajax by his first wife Periboea, and also father of Teucer. He was the brother of Peleus.

↻ synthesized from 4 sources

When

First attested
1200 BCE
Attested period
-500 – 2020
Historical notes
Appears in early Greek mythic cycles linked to the Trojan War.

Relationships

consort of
Periboea, Eriboea
sibling of
Peleus
parent of
Ajax, Teucer
co occurs with
Britomartis, Aphaea, Dictynna, Atlas, Achilles, Zeus, Aphrodite, Athena, Poseidon
allied with
Heracles, Hēraklēs
student of
Chiron
child of
Aeacus

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Mentioned by

Sources

wikipedia (3)
  1. Ajax the Great
  2. Atlas (architecture)
  3. Arezzo 1465 vase
encyclopedia (1)
  1. Aegina (Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th ed.) (1911)
    peer reviewed

Source passages

“Telamon was the son of Aeacus and grandson of Zeus, and his first wife Periboea.”

#11577 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“The western pediment ... represents the earlier expedition of Heracles and Telamon against Troy.”

#43759 · extracted by openai/gpt-oss-120b:free

“The alternative term, telamones, also is derived from a later mythological hero, Telamon, one of the Argonauts, who was the father of Ajax.”

#45194 · extracted by openai/gpt-oss-120b:free

“Telamon, a friend of the demigod Herakles, is commonly thought of in reference to the myth where Telamon assists Herakles in killing the sea monster that Poseidon sends to destroy the city of Troy”

#45583 · extracted by nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-30b-a3b:free