Telamon

After killing their half-brother, Phocus, Telamon and Peleus fled Aegina and made their way to the island of Salamis, where King Cychreus welcomed Telamon and befriended him. Telamon married Cychreus' daughter Periboea, who gave birth to Ajax; sometime later, Cychreus gave Telamon his kingdom. In other versions of the myth Cychreus' daughter is named Glauce, and Periboea is Telamon's second wife, and the daughter of Alcathous.

Telamon also features in both versions of Heracles' sacking of Troy, which was ruled by King Laomedon (or Tros in the alternate versions). Before the Trojan War, Poseidon sent a sea monster to attack Troy.

File:Casa di Ottavio Quartione, Pompeya, Italia, 2016 05.jpg or Hesione's farewell to her brother Priam under the attention of Heracles and Telamon on the right, detail of fresco from the triclinium of the House of Octavius Quartio at Pompeii]]

; Tros version

In the King Tros version, Heracles (along with Telamon and Oicles) agreed to kill the monster if Tros would give him the horses he received from Zeus as compensation for Zeus' kidnapping Tros' son, Ganymede. Tros agreed; Heracles succeeded and Telamon married Hesione, Tros' daughter, by whom he sired Teucer.

; Laomedon version

In the King Laomedon version, Laomedon planned on sacrificing his daughter Hesione to Poseidon in the hope of appeasing him. Heracles rescued her at the last minute and killed both the monster and Laomedon and Laomedon's sons, except for Ganymede, who was on Mount Olympus, and Podarces, who saved his own life by giving Heracles a golden veil Hesione had made. Telamon took Hesione as a war prize and married her, and she gave birth by him to Teucer. When Ajax later committed suicide at Troy, Telamon banished Teucer from Salamis for failing to bring his brother home.

; Bibliotheca version

In Apollodorus' Library, Telamon was almost killed during the siege of Troy. Telamon was the first one to break through the Trojan wall, which enraged Hercules as he was coveting that glory for himself. Hercules was about to cut him down with his sword when Telamon began to quickly assemble an altar out of nearby stones in honor of Hercules. Hercules was so pleased, after the sack of Troy he gave Telamon Hesione as a wife. Hesione requested that she be able to bring her brother Podarces with her. Hercules would not allow it unless Hesione bought Podarces as a slave. Hesione paid for her brother with a veil. Podarces' name was then changed to Priam – which, according to Greek author Apollodorus, was derived from the Greek phrase "to buy".

Image:Wooster-ohio-courthouse-telamon.jpg on the Wayne County, Ohio courthouse]]

In architecture, telamons are colossal male figures used as columns.{{cite book |author=Hersey, George |title=The Lost Meaning of Classical Architecture |publisher=MIT Press |location=Cambridge, MA |year=1998 |pages=125, 126}} These are also called atlas, atlantes, or atlantids; they are the male versions of caryatids.

The "Telamon" (also "Song of Telamon", "Telamon Song", "Telamon-song") is an ancient Greek song (fl. 5th century BC) only found referred to by name in some ancient Greek plays{{cite book |author=Aristophanes |author-link=Aristophanes |title=Lysistrata |at=line 1236–1238}} and later scholia or commentaries. It is usually thought to be a warlike song{{cite book |author1=Powell, Anton |author2=Hodkinson, Stephen |title=The Shadow of Sparta |url=https://archive.org/details/shadowsparta00powe |url-access=limited |publisher=Routledge |year=1994 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/shadowsparta00powe/page/n47 39]-40}}{{cite book |chapter=Lysistrata |author=Henderson, Jeffrey |title=Three Plays by Aristophanes |publisher=Routledge |year=1996 |page=220}}, or other annotated versions of Lysistrata. about Telamon's son Ajax,{{cite book |author=Eustathius of Thessalonica |author-link=Eustathius of Thessalonica |title=Παρεκβολαὶ εἰς τὴν Ὁμήρου Ἰλιάδα καὶ Ὀδύσσειαν |trans-title=Commentaries on Homer's Iliad and Odyssey |edition=Roman |volume=2 |page=285}}. The song took this name from its first line, "Son of Telamon". though some other commentaries thought it to be a mournful song about Telamon himself.{{cite book |author=Erasmus |author-link=Erasmus |title=Adagia |at=3, 4, 10: "Canere de Telamone" |quote=... the Telamon would have been a plaintive song about the father mourning his son.}} It began with: "Son of Telamon, warlike Ajax! They say you are the bravest of the Greeks who came to Troy, next to Achilles."English translation of the Telamon quoted from {{cite book |title=A Select Collection of English Songs |volume=I |year=1783 |chapter=A Historical Essay on the Origin and Progress of National Song |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6a4iAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22Son+of+Telamon,+warlike+Ajax%22&pg=PR15-IA9 |page=x}}

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• {{cite book |title=Bibliotheca |author=pseudo-Apollodorus |at=I, viii 2; ix 16; II, vi 4; III, xii 6–7}}
• {{cite book |author-link=Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus) |author=pseudo-Apollodorus |title=Bibliotheca |trans-title=The Library |translator-link=James George Frazer |translator=Frazer, Sir James George |location=Cambridge, MA / London, UK |publisher=Harvard University Press / William Heinemann |year=1921 |isbn=0-674-99135-4 |section-url=http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0022 |section=Online version |series=Perseus Digital Library |via=Tufts University}} {{cite book |url=http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0021 |title=Greek text |quote=Greek text available at the same website.}}
• {{cite book |author=Apollonius Rhodius |author-link=Apollonius of Rhodes |title=Argonautica |at=I, 90–94}}
• {{cite book |author-link=Apollonius of Rhodes |author=Apollonius Rhodius |title=Argonautica |translator=Seaton, Robert Cooper |series=R.C. Loeb Classical Library |volume=1 |location=London, UK |publisher=William Heinemann |year=1912 |section-url=https://topostext.org/work/126 |section=Online version |via=Topos Text Project (topostext.org) }}
• {{cite book |author-link=Apollonius of Rhodes |author=Apollonius Rhodius |title=Argonautica |editor=Mooney, George W. |location=London, UK |publisher=Longmans, Green |year=1912 |section-url=http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0227 |section=Greek text |via=Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University }}
• {{cite book |author=Publius Ovidius Naso |author-link=Ovid |title=Metamorphoses |at=VIII, 309}}
• {{cite book |author=Publius Ovidius Naso |author-link=Ovid |title=Metamorphoses |translator=More, Brookes |location=Boston, MA |publisher=Cornhill Publishing |year=1922 |section-url=http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0028 |section=Online version |series=Perseus Digital Library |via=Tufts University }}
• {{cite book |author=Publius Ovidius Naso |author-link=Ovid |year=1892 |title=Metamorphoses |publisher=Hugo Magnus / Friedr. Andr. Perthes. |location=Gotha, Germany |section-url=http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0029 |section=Latin text |via=Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University }}
• {{cite book |author-link=John Tzetzes |author=Tzetzes, John |title=Allegories of the Iliad |translator1=Goldwyn, Adam J. |translator2=Kokkini, Dimitra |series=Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library |publisher=Harvard University Press |year=2015 |isbn=978-0-674-96785-4}}

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