The sons of Aeacus were Telamon and Peleus; Telamon won the meed of valor in an
 expedition with Heracles against Laomedon, Laomedon, with
 the help of Poseidon, built Troy . and
 Peleus, having distinguished himself in the battle with the Centaurs and having won glory
 in many other hazardous enterprises, wedded Thetis, the daughter of Nereus, he a mortal
 winning an immortal bride. And they say that at his wedding alone, of all the human race
 who have ever lived, the wedding-song was sung by gods. To each of these two were born sons—to Telamon Ajax and Teucer, and to Peleus Achilles,
 and these heroes gave proof of their valour in the clearest and most convincing way: for
 not alone in their own cities were they pre-eminent, or in the places where they made
 their homes, but when an expedition was organized by the Greeks against the
 barbarians, i.e., the Trojans. and a great army
 was assembled on either side and no warrior of repute was absent, Achilles above all distinguished himself in these
 perils. And Ajax was second to him in valor, and Teucer, who proved himself worthy of
 their kinship and inferior to none of the other heroes, after he had helped in the capture
 of Troy , went to Cyprus and founded Salamis , giving
 to it the name of his former native land The island
 Salamis near Athens. ; and he left
 behind him the family that now reigns. So distinguished from the beginning was the heritage transmitted to Evagoras by his
 ancestors. After the city had been founded in this manner, the rule at first was held by
 Teucer’s descendants: at a later time, however, there came from Phoenicia a fugitive, who after he had gained the
 confidence of the king who then reigned, and had won great power, showed no proper
 gratitude for the favor shown him; on the contrary, he acted basely toward his host, and being skilled at grasping, he
 expelled his benefactor and himself seized the throne. But distrustful of the consequences
 of his measures and wishing to make his position secure, he reduced the city to barbarism,
 and brought the whole island into subservience to the Great King. The kind of Persia , Artaxerxes.