Another Usless Name Thing

[Guest The Thin Inn Keeper]

Just came across a little factlet that I thought I'd pass on:

 

Telamon

Function: noun

Etymology: Latin, from Greek telamōn bearer, supporter; akin to Greek tlēnai to bear

 

I came across it in the context of "endurance" or "to endure" when reading something about Aeschylus' Ajax.

 

Kind of amused me, given that the titular character Ajax (or to be 100% correct, Telamonian Ajax) goes bananas too.

 

Interesting, or maybe not.

[Matrim DeLaneous]

Tel·a·mon

Noun - Greek Mythology

(1) One of the Argonauts and the father of Ajax.

(2) A figure of a man used as a supporting column [syn: atlas] 

The American Heritage® Dictionary

 

For some reason it makes me think... "duty is heavier than a mountain"

 

[Guest The Thin Inn Keeper]

Just thought I'd add a little:

 

Depending on the version of the story, (Telamonian) Ajax was one of the major heroes of the Trojan War, second only in combat prowess to Achilles.

 

He recovers the body of the dead Achilles and, with Odysseus, gets it back to camp.

 

There is then a games held in Achilles' honor, the main prize being his armor.

 

Ody. somehow cheats Ajax out of the prize causing him to plot the murder of his colleagues. Athena visits him in the night and drives him temporarily insane. He leaves the tents, and kills what he thinks are the other Greek kings, upon which he regains his sanity and sees that he has in fact slaughtered a flock of sheep. He then kills himself.

 

Inspiration for the Kinslayer and his suicide on what would become Dragonmount?

[CUBAREY]

Ody. somehow cheats Ajax out of the prize causing him to plot the murder of his colleagues. Athena visits him in the night and drives him temporarily insane. He leaves the tents, and kills what he thinks are the other Greek kings, upon which he regains his sanity and sees that he has in fact slaughtered a flock of sheep. He then kills himself.

 

Inspiration for the Kinslayer and his suicide on what would become Dragonmount?

 

Reminds me of Thom's speech in the the beginning of the fourth book when he explains that all we really know of the past are legends and myths in which the facts have been jumbled together and we do not even know if the characters we know as heroes were the actual heroes of the story.