Telamon When Ajax later committed suicide at Troy, Telamon banished Teucer from Salamis for failing to bring his brother home. In 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
Battle of Salamis (306 BC) and baggage train of Demetrius', a gesture reciprocated by Demetrius after his success at Myus in the next year. Demetrius honoured this after Salamis as well, immediately releasing Menelaus and other relatives and friends of Ptolemy who had been captured with their personal possessions. When Ptolemy recaptured Cyprus in 295 BC, and found Demetrius' mother and children at Salamis, he again reciprocated by immediately releasing them. The victory at Salamis was used by Antigonus as a suitable pretext for his own proclamation as king ("basileus"), the Macedonian throne having lain vacant since the murder of Alexander IV of Macedon by