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The Shield of Ajax

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Part of the book series: History of Mechanism and Machine Science ((HMMS,volume 9))

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Ajax, son of Telamon, King of Salamis, and, according to Homer, a man of enormous stature and a colossal body, was inferior in strength and bravery only to Achilles (Figure 17.1).

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Paipetis, S.A. (2010). The Shield of Ajax. In: The Unknown Technology in Homer. History of Mechanism and Machine Science, vol 9. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2514-2_17

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