Telamon
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- Gender
- male
- Place of birth
- Aegina
- Spouse
- Periboea
- Child
- Ajax the Great
- Sibling
- Peleus
- Occupation
- politician
- Image
- Aeacus telemon.jpg
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- Telamon
- member of
- Argonauts
- described by source
- New International Encyclopedia
- name in native language
- Τελαμών
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thumb|280px|The marriage of Telamon and Hesione or Hesione's farewell to her brother [[Priam under the attention of Heracles and Telamon on the right, detail of fresco from the triclinium of the House of Octavius Quartio at Pompeii]]
Telamon (; Ancient Greek: Τελαμών, Telamōn means "broad strap") in Greek mythology was the son of King Aeacus of Aegina, and Endeïs, a mountain nymph. The elder brother of Peleus, Telamon sailed alongside Jason as one of his Argonauts, and was present at the hunt for the Calydonian Boar. In the Iliad, he was the father of Greek heroes Ajax the Great and Teucer by different mothers. Some accounts mention a third son of his, Trambelus. He and Peleus were also close friends of Heracles, assisting him on his expeditions against the Amazons and his assault on Troy (see below).
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