can u plz tell me the story of Ajax from "The Odyssey"?

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who is he and can u tell me his story from beginning to end? i need to know wut happened to him from start to finish.. THX GUYS!!

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ajax was a hero of the trojan wars and the king of salamis. In the Odyssey, Odysseus encounters ajax in the house of the dead. Ajax begrudges Odysseus and does not speak to him because, after the Trojan War, Odysseus and Ajax hold a series of competitions to decide who gets to keep Achilles' armor (Achilles, greatest hero of the Trojan war, killed by Hector; armor forged by Hephaestus, smith of the Gods). The final competition, however, is a competition of speaking ability, at which Odysseus easily defeated Ajax. In his anger, Ajax fell to the ground in exhaustion. When he awoke, he was under Athena's spell, and mistook a flock of sheep as the Achaen commanders (Odysseus, Agamemnon, etc.) and brutally killed them. Ajax, kinda coming to his senses, realizes he killed his friends (although, in reality only killing sheep), and kills himself with the sword hector (prince of troy) gave him during the wars.

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