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
Greek battleship Salamis Periklis Argyropoulos, the Minister of Marine, wanted to accept the offer, pointing to a study by the General Staff that demonstrated that a modernized "Salamis" would be capable of defeating "Yavuz" owing to the heavier armor and more powerful main battery of the Greek ship. The British naval architect Eustace Tennyson d'Eyncourt issued a study in support of Argyropoulos, pointing out that "Salamis" would likely also be faster than "Yavuz" and would have a stronger anti-aircraft battery. Commander Andreas Kolialexis opposed acquiring "Salamis", and he wrote a memorandum in mid-1929 to Venizelos, who was again the Prime Minister, where he