Warrior

Homer describes a great warrior:

Aias (Ajax), bulwark of the Achaeans (Greeks), spring(s) forward with a grim smile on his face as he brandished his long spear and strode onward. The Argives were elated as they beheld him, but the Trojans trembled in every limb, and the heart even of Hector beat quickly, but he could not now retreat and withdraw into the ranks behind him, for he had been the challenger. Aias came up bearing his shield in front of him like a wall - a shield of bronze with seven folds of ox-hide - the work of Tychius - - - - over these he had set an eighth layer of bronze.