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See also:AJAX (Gr. Alas) , a See also:Greek See also:hero, son of 011eus, See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of Locris, called the " lesser " or Locrian Ajax, to distinguish him from Ajax, son of Telamon. In spite of his small stature, he held his own amongst the other heroes before See also:Troy; he was brave, next to See also:Achilles in swiftness of See also:foot and famous for throwing the See also:spear. But he was boastful, arrogant and quarrelsome; like the Telamonian Ajax, he was the enemy of See also:Odysseus, and in the end the victim of the vengeance of Athene, who wrecked his See also:ship on his homeward voyage (Odyssey, iv. 499). A later See also:story gives a more definite See also:account of the offence of which he was guilty. It is said that, after the fall of Troy, he dragged See also:Cassandra away by force from the statue of the goddess at which she had taken See also:refuge as a suppliant, and even violated her (See also:Lycophron, 36o, See also:Quintus Smyrnaeus x111. 422). For this, his ship was wrecked in a See also:storm on the See also:coast of See also:Euboea, and he himself was struck by See also:lightning (See also:Virgil, Aen. i. 40). He was said to have lived after his See also:death in the See also:island of Leuke. He was worshipped as a See also:national hero by the Opuntian Locrians (on whose coins he appears), who always See also:left a vacant See also:place for him in the ranks of their See also:army when See also:drawn up in See also:battle See also:array. He was the subject of a lost tragedy by See also:Sophocles. The See also:rape of Cassandra by Ajax was frequently represented in Greek See also:works of See also:art, for instance on the See also:chest of Cypselus described by See also:Pausanias (v. 17) and in extant works.
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