where he had a statue in the market-place, and the tribe Aiantis was named after him. Pausanias also relates that a gigantic skeleton, its kneecap in diameter, appeared on the beach near Sigeion, on the Trojan coast; these bones were identified as those of Ajax. Gallery Palace In 2001, Yannos Lolos began excavating a Mycenaean palace near the village of Kanakia on the island of Salamis which he theorized to be the home of the mythological Aiacid dynasty. The multi-story structure covers and had perhaps 30 rooms. The palace appears to have been abandoned at the height of the Mycenaean civilization, roughly the same time the Trojan War may have occurred. See also Corpus vasorum antiquorum List of suicides in fiction Troy VII Notes Notes References Homer. Iliad, 7.181–312. Homer, Odyssey 11.543–67. Bibliotheca. Epitome III, 11-V, 7. Graves, Robert, The Greek Myths, Harmondsworth, London, England, Penguin Books, 1960. Graves, Robert, The Greek Myths: The Complete and Definitive Edition. Penguin Books Limited. 2017. Ovid. Metamorphoses 12.620–13.398. Friedrich Schiller, Das Siegerfest. Pindar's Nemeans, 7, 8; Isthmian 4 Tzetzes, John, Allegories of the Iliad translated by Goldwyn, Adam J. and Kokkini, Dimitra. Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, Harvard University Press, 2015. External links A translation of the debate and Ajax's death. http://classics.mit.edu/Ovid/metam.13.thirteenth.html Suitors of Helen Achaean Leaders Kings of Argos Characters in the Odyssey Suicides in Greek mythology Tutelary gods Metamorphoses characters Salaminian characters in Greek mythology Metamorphoses into flowers in Greek mythology