According to the Bibliotheca, no one had realised that Ajax had raped Cassandra until Calchas, the Greek seer, warned the Greeks that Athena was furious at the treatment of her priestess and she would destroy the Greek ships if they didn't kill him immediately.

The Opuntian Locrians worshiped Ajax as their national hero, and so great was their faith in him that when they drew up their army in battle, they always left one place open for him, believing that, although invisible to them, he was fighting for and among them.

Ajax is historically one of the most successful clubs in the world ; according to the IFFHS, Ajax were the seventh most successful European club of the 20th century.

:: 1973, 1995 *( Ajax also won in 1972, however, UEFA only sanctioned the UEFA Super Cup for the first time in 1973 so the 1972 edition was an unofficial one.

The alternative term, telamones, also is derived from a later mythological hero, Telamon, one of the Argonauts, who was the father of Ajax.

The club is historically one of the three clubs that have dominated the first tier of Dutch football, the others being Ajax and PSV.

Pierce Egan was one of the narrators of George MacDonald Fraser's book Black Ajax, about Tom Molineaux and his quest for the heavyweight championship of England.

Founded in 1913, PSV is one of three European Cup-winning clubs in the Netherlands, alongside AFC Ajax and Feyenoord.

As of March 14, 2010 PSV were second in the league trailing leaders Twente by five points with only one point lead on the third placed team AFC Ajax.

As the 54th Eredivisie ended on 2 May 2010, PSV ended in third, eight points behind the champions, after a shaky end as Ajax climbed up the table to swipe second while Twente won with one point over Ajax.

In Homer's Iliad Diomedes is regarded alongside Ajax as one of the best warriors of all the Achaeans ( behind only Achilles in prowess ).

However, during Patroclus ' funeral games, Diomedes was overwhelming Ajax when his comrades advised the fighting to stop, lest one of them get injured.

When they cast lots to choose one among those warriors, the Achaeans prayed " Father Zeus, grant that the lot fall on Ajax, or on the son of Tydeus, or upon Agamemnon.

He went to the aid of Ajax the Great when the latter was wounded and tired from hard fighting and was compelled to withdraw from combat: in defending Ajax he killed Apisaon but was wounded in the thigh and put out of action from one of Paris ' arrows.

During this incident, one Ajax supporter was beaten to death.

Despite being from one of the traditional three large Dutch cities, it has not been able to match AFC Ajax, Feyenoord or PSV in terms of success in the Eredivisie or in European competition.

Beating rival AFC Ajax 2 times was one of the best results that year.

During this era Ajax played some of their finest football ever, achieving home wins ( 46-0-0 ) for two full seasons ( 1971 – 72 and 1972 – 73 ), just one defeat in the whole of the 1971-72 season, and celebrating five titles in 1972 ( the Netherlands national league, KNVB Cup, European Cup, European Super Cup and Intercontinental Cup ).

This has caused confusion, as one of the population centres of the original township, Pickering Village, is now found in Ajax, along with its eponymous secondary school.

He returned to Arsenal for one game on 22 July 2006 in a testimonial for Dennis Bergkamp as one of the Arsenal legends against AFC Ajax legends.

Despite regaining the title in 2003 – 04, Ajax had fallen eight points behind rivals PSV in the Eredivisie.

After making a name for himself at Ajax in the Netherlands – being a leading figure in a team which won eight major titles, including the 1994 – 95 UEFA Champions League – he played several years in Spain with Real Betis, also having a brief spell in England before retiring.

After eight years at Ajax, Wisman left the club in 1975 and went on to play at FC Amsterdam and SC Amersfoort.

* Ajax Cape Town FC, a South African football club

Ajax has also expanded its talent searching program to South Africa with Ajax Cape Town.

There are some youth players from Ajax Cape Town that have been drafted into the Eredivisie squad, such as South African international Steven Pienaar ( on loan to Everton ) and Cameroonian international Eyong Enoh.

AFC Ajax have for instance a connection with the South African team Ajax Cape Town, Manchester United have a connection with the Australian team Wollongong Wolves and the Belgian team Royal Antwerp, and Lithuanian side FBK Kaunas have loaned many of their younger players out to their Scottish parent team Heart of Midlothian in the hope of securing them a deal at a bigger club in the future.

Sander Westerveld ( born 23 October 1974 ) is a Dutch professional football goalkeeper, currently playing for South African Premier Soccer League club Ajax Cape Town.

He later joined Ajax Cape Town in South Africa where he is the number 1 goalkeeper.

The club was formed in 1959 with the amalgamation of three struggling Melbourne soccer clubs – South Melbourne United, the oldest of the three clubs with a history dating back to the early 1900s – the Greek-backed Yarra Park Aias ( Ajax ), and Hellenic.

Having already won a league championship with Ajax Amsterdam in Holland as well a FC Porto in Portugal both in Europe, Benni would make football history by winning the league championship with Orlando Pirates in South Africa.

The 1998 FIFA World Cup in France was the first time South Africa's national football team had reached the later stages of the competition and McCarthy ( then at Ajax ) was one of their key players.

Surgeon Captain Rick Jolly, who as a Surgeon Commander with the Commando Logistic Regiment commanded the field hospital at Ajax Bay during the Falklands War has produced his own dictionary of " Jackspeak " in aid of the South Atlantic Medal Association.

The reverse side depicts a scene of the " Ajax " steam locomotive crossing the bridge over the Danube on the first public run from the North Railway Station in Vienna to Deutsch-Wagram on January 6, 1838.

In 1837, Ajax was supplied to the Leicester and Swannington Railway, followed by Hector, an 0-6-0.

Palamedes, Creugas and Damoxenus, the Combat of Theseus and the Centaur, and Hercules and Lichas may close the class of heroic compositions, although the catalogue might be swelled by the enumeration of various others, such as Hector and Ajax, King Ferdinand of Naples, and others.

* 1939 – World War II: Battle of the River Plate – Captain Hans Langsdorff of the German Deutschland class cruiser ( pocket battleship ) Admiral Graf Spee engages with Royal Navy cruisers HMS Exeter, HMS Ajax and HMNZS Achilles.

* King George V class ( 1911 ) of four battleships that served in World War I ( King George V, Centurion, Audacious, and Ajax )

* Ajax, a LMS Royal Scot Class express locomotive, in service 1927-1962

By 1950 systems based on this early research started to reach operational service, including the US Army's Nike Ajax, the Navy's " 3T's " ( Talos, Terrier, Tartar ), and soon followed by the Soviet S-25 Berkut and S-75 Dvina and French and British systems.

" Thersites soon leaves Ajax and puts himself into the service of Achilles ( portrayed by Shakespeare as a kind of bohemian figure ), who appreciates his bitter, caustic humor.

* Boyd B. Durr ( 1926-2010 ), Ajax native, United States Army Air Corps service in World War II, law-enforcement officer from 1946-2000, Natchitoches town marshal, Democratic sheriff of Natchitoches Parish during the 1990s until unseated in the 1999 nonpartisan blanket primary by Victor E. Jones, Jr.

He talks of a happy childhood as the son of a judge, and how he used Vim and Ajax to clean the barracks during his military service in Valencia.

Oddpost was a pay-for webmail service, in 2002, that pioneered the use of JavaScript to mimic a desktop mail application, the first notable foray into using Ajax methodologies for webmail.

Ajax techniques minimized the amount of data sent during an email session by sending " Datapacks " instead of reloading the whole interface on every click like a traditional webmail service ( Hotmail, AOL ).