Editing Telamon (section)

==Mythology==
After killing their half-brother, [[Phocus of Aegina|Phocus]], Telamon and Peleus fled Aegina and made their way to the island of [[Salamis Island|Salamis]], where King [[Cychreus (mythology)|Cychreus]] welcomed Telamon and befriended him. Telamon married Cychreus' daughter Periboea, who gave birth to Ajax; sometime later, Cychreus gave Telamon his kingdom. In other versions of the myth Cychreus' daughter is named [[Glauce]], and Periboea is Telamon's second wife, and the daughter of Alcathous.

===Trojan War===
Telamon also features in both versions of [[Heracles]]' sacking of [[Troy]], which was ruled by King [[Laomedon]] (or [[Tros (mythology)|Tros]] in the alternate versions). Before the Trojan War, [[Poseidon]] sent a sea monster to attack Troy.
[[File:Casa di Ottavio Quartione, Pompeya, Italia, 2016 05.jpg|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]]]]
; Tros version
In the King Tros version, [[Heracles]] (along with Telamon and [[Oicles]]) agreed to kill the monster if Tros would give him the horses he received from [[Zeus]] as compensation for Zeus' kidnapping Tros' son, [[Ganymede (mythology)|Ganymede]]. Tros agreed; Heracles succeeded and Telamon married [[Hesione]], Tros' daughter, by whom he sired [[Teucer]].

; Laomedon version
In the King Laomedon version, Laomedon planned on sacrificing his daughter [[Hesione]] to [[Poseidon]] in the hope of appeasing him. Heracles rescued her at the last minute and killed both the monster and Laomedon and Laomedon's sons, except for Ganymede, who was on [[Mount Olympus]], and [[Priam|Podarces]], who saved his own life by giving Heracles a golden veil Hesione had made. Telamon took Hesione as a war prize and married her, and she gave birth by him to [[Teucer]]. When Ajax later committed suicide at Troy, Telamon banished Teucer from Salamis for failing to bring his brother home.

; Bibliotheca version
In [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus' ''Library'']], Telamon was almost killed during the siege of Troy. Telamon was the first one to break through the Trojan wall, which enraged Hercules as he was coveting that glory for himself. Hercules was about to cut him down with his sword when Telamon began to quickly assemble an altar out of nearby stones in honor of Hercules. Hercules was so pleased, after the sack of Troy he gave Telamon Hesione as a wife. Hesione requested that she be able to bring her brother Podarces with her. Hercules would not allow it unless Hesione bought Podarces as a slave. Hesione paid for her brother with a veil. Podarces' name was then changed to [[Priam]] – which, according to Greek author Apollodorus, was derived from the Greek phrase "to buy".

[[Image:Wooster-ohio-courthouse-telamon.jpg|thumb|upright|Architectural [[Atlas (architecture)|Telamon / atlantides]] on the [[Wayne County, Ohio]] courthouse]]