AJAX, surnamed Oileus, and the Lesser (to distinguish him from the former), the son of Oileus, king of the Locrians, was one of the principal heroes at the siege of Troy. He is said, after the taking of Troy, to have ravished Cassandra the daughter of Priam, in the temple of Minerva, whither she had fled for refuge. On his return home he was shipwrecked and perished on the coast of Eubœa. Philostratus records of him that he had a tame serpent 5 cubits in length, which ate at his table, and followed him like a dog. The Locrians held the memory of Ajax in great veneration and honoured him in some degree as a tutelary deity.