Editing Telamon (section)

==The Telamon==

The "Telamon" (also "Song of Telamon", "Telamon Song", "Telamon-song") is an ancient Greek song (fl. 5th&nbsp;century&nbsp;BC) only found referred to by name in some ancient Greek plays<ref>{{cite book |author=Aristophanes |author-link=Aristophanes |title=[[Lysistrata]] |at=line 1236–1238}}</ref> and later [[scholia]] or commentaries. It is usually thought to be a warlike song<ref>{{cite book |author1=Powell, Anton |author2=Hodkinson, Stephen |title=The Shadow of Sparta |url=https://archive.org/details/shadowsparta00powe |url-access=limited |publisher=Routledge |year=1994 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/shadowsparta00powe/page/n47 39]-40}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |chapter=[[Lysistrata]] |author=Henderson, Jeffrey |title=Three Plays by Aristophanes |publisher=Routledge |year=1996 |page=220}}, or other annotated versions of [[Lysistrata]].</ref> about Telamon's son Ajax,<ref>{{cite book |author=Eustathius of Thessalonica |author-link=Eustathius of Thessalonica |title=Παρεκβολαὶ εἰς τὴν Ὁμήρου Ἰλιάδα καὶ Ὀδύσσειαν |trans-title=Commentaries on [[Homer]]'s [[Iliad]] and [[Odyssey]] |edition=Roman |volume=2 |page=285}}. The song took this name from its first line, "Son of Telamon".</ref> though some other commentaries thought it to be a mournful song about Telamon himself.<ref>{{cite book |author=Erasmus |author-link=Erasmus  |title=[[Adagia]] |at=3, 4, 10: "Canere de Telamone" |quote=...&nbsp;the ''Telamon'' would have been a plaintive song about the father mourning his son.}}</ref> It began with: "Son of Telamon, warlike Ajax! They say you are the bravest of the Greeks who came to Troy, next to Achilles."<ref>English translation of the ''Telamon'' quoted from {{cite book |title=A Select Collection of English Songs |volume=I |year=1783 |chapter=A Historical Essay on the Origin and Progress of National Song |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6a4iAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22Son+of+Telamon,+warlike+Ajax%22&pg=PR15-IA9 |page=x}}</ref>

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