An interesting story in The Times.
Bet it’s a real clean place…
Incredible, so exciting. Amazing that the myth becomes reality.
Before I click the link I must know if it’s Ajax the Greater or Ajax the Lesser. The lesser simply is not worth of my intrest or perusal.
Skeptic here. Until they discover some real indication of the ownership [say an inscription] it is simply an interesting Mycenean vintage palace that was abandoned or fell in the rough era WE attribute the Illiad to. It may or may not be the palace of Ajax.
But it is interesting.
I woulda said that if you hadn’t.
J.B. Handelsman once drew a picture of the fighting before Troy, with a fighting can of Ajax cleanser in the background.
It’s not just our modern world that has a warped image of “Ajax”. In Shakespeare’s time a jakes meant the toilet (“jakes” = “john”), so Ajax = A Jakes was the source of a lot of coarse punning. (See Eric Partidge’s “Shakespeare’s Bawdy”)
I’m convinced that it was because of this sort of this that Fitzgerald made all his transliterations of the Greek deliberately as far from the Latin versions as possible. So the hero’s name came out as Aias, and when I read his Iliad and Odyssey translations I didn’t picture fighting cans of foaming cleanser.
Put me in the camp of Skeptics. The mask of Agamemnon wasn’t of him, and my understandin is that people got skeptical about the grave of Philip of Macedon they supposed found, after they calmed down a little.
Yeah, no mention of any inscriptions with his name or anything. I’m certain anyone owning a palace on Salamis would have claimed Ajax (the Greater) as an ancestor, but I doubt we’ll ever find historical proof of the man himself.
Sorry, just read the post above. Cal, do you mean the toms at Vergina? Those are totally accepted as the tombs of the Macedonian royal family. There’s some discussions as to whose tomb is Philip’s, whose is Philip Arrhidaus and so on, however.