When Peleus and his brother Telamon were banished from their father Aeacus' kingdom of Aegina, Peleus went to Phthia to be purified by his uncle King Eurytion, whose daughter Antigone he married, receiving a third of Eurytion's kingdom.
The related telamon of Roman architecture, the male counterpart of the caryatid, is also a weight-bearing figure but does not usually appear in an atlas pose.
Aeacus, in Greek mythology, son of Zeus and Aegina, the daughter of the river god Asopus; Aeacus was the father of Telamon and Peleus.
The mythography Bibliotheca (1st or 2nd century ad; Library) related that Peleus and Telamon, at the instigation of Endeis, their mother, plotted Phocus's death, drawing lots to decide which should destroy him.
Peleus and Telamon, Aeacus's legitimate sons, resented Phocus's superior athletic prowess.
Heracles gave Hesione to Telamon, who had fought at his side.
The lot fell on Telamon, who murdered Phocus during a game and then claimed that the death was an accident.
Pausanias wrote that Telamon returned to plead his innocence but was sent away by his father.
Ajax, (Latin), Greek Aias, byname Ajax the Greater, in Greek legend, son of Telamon, king of Salamis, described in the Iliad as being of great stature and colossal frame, second only to the Greek Achilles in strength and bravery.
"About Those Tireless Telamons Who Day by Day Support Our Present Time" is a homage to the braces that shore up old buildings by drawing them as telamons, the columns in the form of male figures that figuratively supported ancient structures.
Cueva's plays in the collection Primera parte de las comedias y tragedias (1583; "First Part of the Comedies and Tragedies"), including such works as Tragedia de Ayax Telamón ("Tragedy of Ajax Telamon") and Tragedia de la muerte de Virginia ("Tragedy of the Death of Virginia"), drew on Greco-Roman themes.
