TELAMON Definition & Meaning

telamon

[ tel-uh-muhn, -mon ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Architecture.

plural telamones

atlas ( def 5 ).

Telamon

[ tel-uh-muhn, -mon ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Classical Mythology.

an Argonaut and friend of Hercules, and the father of Ajax and Teucer.

Telamon

/ -ˌmɒn; ˈ��ɛ��ə��ə�� /

noun

Greek myth a king of Salamis; brother of Peleus and father of Teucer and Ajax

telamon

/ ˈ��ɛ��ə��ə�� /

noun

a column in the form of a male figure, used to support an entablature Also calledatlas Compare caryatid

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of telamon¹

1700–10; < Latin �ٱ��ō�� < Greek �ٱ��ṓn bearer, support; identified with Telamon

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of telamon¹

C18: via Latin from Greek, from �ٱ�ŧ�Բ�� to bear

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Again, figures in the form of men supporting mutules or coronae, we term "telamones"—the reasons why or wherefore they are so called are not found in any story—but the Greeks name them ἁτλανες.

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But the Algonquins and Iroquois wore such breastplates as they could manufacture, though they also used shields of great size, suspended, in Mycenaean fashion, from the neck and shoulder by a telamon or belt.

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