Telamon’s Family Tree

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Family

• Aeacus(parent),Peleus(sibling)

  Aeacus, son of Zeus and king of Aegina, fathered Peleus and Telamon by Endeis. Both sons were exiled after murdering their half-brother Phocus, with Peleus settling in Phthia and Telamon on Salamis.

• Hesione(spouse),Teucer(child)— Consort

  Telamon received Hesione as his war prize after Heracles sacked Troy. She bore him the archer Teucer, who fought alongside his half-brother Ajax at the second siege of the same city.

• Periboea(spouse),Ajax(child)— Marriage

  Telamon and Periboea of Megara were the parents of Ajax, the mightiest Greek warrior after Achilles. Ajax inherited his father's kingdom of Salamis and sailed from there to Troy.

Allied with

• Heracles

  Telamon was Heracles's close companion and fought beside him in the first sack of Troy against King Laomedon. Heracles rewarded Telamon with Laomedon's daughter Hesione as a war prize for being the first to breach the walls.

Slew

• Phocus

  Peleus and Telamon murdered their half-brother Phocus on Aegina, either by a deliberate discus throw or outright assault. Aeacus discovered the crime and banished both sons from the island forever.

Member of

• Argonauts

  Telamon sailed with the Argonauts alongside his brother Peleus. A generation later, his son Ajax would fight at Troy, continuing the heroic lineage begun on the Argo.

Associated with

• Ajax

  Telamon prayed to Zeus for a strong son, and Zeus sent an eagle as an omen. Telamon named his son Ajax (Aias) after the eagle (aietos). Ajax grew to become the greatest Greek warrior at Troy after Achilles.

  ⚠ Pindar's Isthmian 6 attributes the naming and eagle-omen to Heracles visiting Telamon, rather than Telamon praying alone.

• Calydonian Boar

  Telamon joined the hunt for the Calydonian Boar alongside his brother Peleus and other heroes of his generation, one of the great gatherings before the Trojan War.

• Hesione

  After the first sack of Troy, Telamon received the Trojan princess Hesione as his war prize. She bore him the archer Teucer, making the great bowman of the Trojan War half-brother to Ajax and nephew of Priam.

• Laomedon

  Telamon fought alongside Heracles in the first sack of Troy, waged against Laomedon for refusing to pay the gods and Heracles for their services. Telamon was the first Greek to breach the Trojan walls.

• Priam

  Priam was a young prince during the first sack of Troy led by Heracles and Telamon. The sack killed Laomedon and most of the royal family, but Priam survived to rebuild Troy — the city Telamon's son Ajax would later besiege.