After Achilles, Ajax is the most valuable warrior in Agamemnon's army ( along with Diomedes ), though he is not as cunning as Nestor, Diomedes, Idomeneus, or Odysseus, he is much more powerful and just as intelligent.

In Book 9, Agamemnon and the other Mycenaean chiefs send Ajax, Odysseus and Phoenix to the tent of Achilles in an attempt to reconcile with the great warrior and induce him to return to the fight.

Although Ajax speaks earnestly and is well received, he does not succeed in convincing Achilles.

Ajax, assisted by Menelaus, succeeds in fighting off the Trojans and taking the body back with his chariot ; however, the Trojans had already stripped Patroclus of Achilles ' armor.

Later, when Achilles dies, killed by Paris ( with help from Apollo ), Ajax and Odysseus are the heroes who fight against the Trojans to get the body and bury it next to his friend, Patroclus.

* 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.

Ajax gives Hector his girdle, which will later be used to attach Hector's corpse to Achilles ' chariot by which he is dragged around the walls of Troy.

During the embassy to Achilles, Odysseus, Phoenix and Ajax all try to persuade Achilles to rejoin the fight.

After his death, Achilles slits Hector's heels and passes the girdle that Ajax had given Hector through the slits of the heels.

After the deaths of many heroes, including the Achaeans Achilles and Ajax, and the Trojans Hector and Paris, the city fell to the ruse of the Trojan Horse.

Achilles and Ajax were the most active of the Achaeans, leading separate armies to raid lands of Trojan allies.

Ajax and Achilles playing a board game ( Black-figure Attic lekythos, ca.

At some point in the war Achilles and Ajax were playing a board game ( petteia ).

In the ensuing battle, Exeter was severely damaged and forced to retire ; Ajax and Achilles suffered moderate damage.

Ajax and Achilles shadowed the German ship until it entered the port of Montevideo, the capital city of neutral Uruguay, to effect urgent repairs.

* December 13 – WWII – Battle of the River Plate: The German pocket battleship, Admiral Graf Spee is trapped by cruisers HMS Ajax, HMNZS Achilles, and HMS Exeter after a running battle off the coast of Uruguay.

In Homer's Iliad, Phoenix, along with Odysseus and Ajax, urges Achilles to re-enter battle.

However, it has been suggested that Achilles speaks only to Phoenix and Ajax, ignoring Odysseus, to whose guile he bears a considerable dislike.

Bacchylides then tells of the greatness of these men ’ s sons, Achilles and Ajax, alluding to a second myth, the tale of Ajax repelling Hector on the beaches of Troy, keeping the Trojans from burning the Greek ships.

On her first, and only, day of fighting, Penthesilea kills many men and clashes with Telamonian Ajax, although there is no clear victor, before she comes face to face with Achilles, who had been summoned by Telamonian Ajax.

Prior to Achilles ' entrance, Penthesilea had tried to fight Telamonian Ajax but he had merely laughed off her attempts, thinking her unfit to face him.

( As Sophocles writes it in his play named Philoctetes, Odysseus is accompanied by Neoptolemus, Achilles ' son, also known as Pyrrhus.

In 1981, Dench was due to play the title role of Grizabella in the original production of Cats, but was forced to pull out due to a torn Achilles tendon, leaving Elaine Paige to play the role.

Fragments of his play Achilles were said to have been discovered in the wrappings of a mummy in the 1990s

Achilles then drags Hector's body around the walls of Troy, and the play ends with the Trojan warriors retreating to the city to mourn their fallen hero.

Neoptolemus, son of Achilles, was from Skyros ( or Scyros, as its name is sometimes transliterated ), as told in the play by Sophocles, Philoctetes ( line 239 ).

As was customary, the role of Achilles was played by a woman, Vittoria Tesi, called " Moretta "; and the play featured the first female soprano Anna Peruzzi, called " the Parrucchierina " and tenor Angelo Amorevoli.

The chorus was thus a group of Nereids, and the subject of the play involved Achilles and his Nereid mother Thetis, probably her mourning his imminent death and the acquisition of his new arms.

He also mentioned that, in light of the Achilles injury to Ryan Howard, he would " spend the offseason preparing himself to play first base once or twice a week ", despite not playing in the field since 2007.

Bean, however, does play the game once, at the Giant's Drink, and the computer shows Achilles ' face, similar to the scene in Game when Ender sees Peter's face.

The Jets had Super Bowl hopes going into 1999, but Testaverde suffered a ruptured Achilles tendon in the first game and did not play the rest of the season, as the Jets narrowly missed the postseason without him.

He went on to play two important roles in other Hollywood costume epics: Achilles in Helen of Troy ( 1956 ) and Attalus in Alexander the Great ( 1956 ); he also portrayed Rochester in a TV adaptation of Jane Eyre ( 1956 ).

He ruptured his Achilles tendon in the 1997 preseason and did not play that year.

Only the titles of three of his plays ( Achilles, Asclepius, and Tantalus ) with a single line of the text, have come down to us, though Ennius freely borrowed from his play about Achilles.

At the onset of the play, Ajax is enraged because Achilles ' armor was awarded to Odysseus, rather than to him.

After only being able to play 4 games in the 2008 season due to an Achilles tendon problem, Nigel decided it was time to draw a close on his career.

However, the player must play through the entire game again after defeating the final boss, Achilles, in order to see the true ending ( similarly to Ghosts ' n Goblins ).

Amphora by Exekias, Achilles and Ajax ( mythology ) | Ajax engaged in a board game, c. 540-530 BC, Vatican Museums, Vatican City.

About as famous as the Dionysus cup is an amphora with his visualization of Ajax and Achilles engaged in a board game.

Kilmer had started the first three games of the season, was replaced in game four by 38-year-old Sonny Jurgensen, then replaced Jurgensen when he was lost for the season with an Achilles tendon injury.

Kirilenko, who had missed 13 of the last 15 games of the season due to an injury, re-aggravated the injury the day before the first game of the playoffs and missed the first round, while Okur tore his Achilles tendon in the first game and missed the rest of the playoffs.

On 12 December 2009, Péricard scored the only goal in the game in a 1-0 win over Wycombe Wanderers and before the match, Péricard required an injection in his Achilles tendon before scoring the winner.

On June 11, 2012, he snapped his Achilles during England's warmups for their game against France during Euro 2012.

The player, in the role of Dante Johnson, begins the game with command of a small capital ship-a Guardian-class Destroyer-and three Raptor-class Fighters ( later in the game the player would command up to 28 capital ships and 180 fighters in one fleet ), and three colonies, named Achilles, Naxos and San Sterling, unable to move beyond the boundaries of the small sector assigned for him to defend and expand.

He started his first game of the season at middle linebacker in place of an injured Ed Hartwell ( Achilles ) at New Orleans and led the linebacker corps with eight tackles in addition to posting his second interception of the season, he recorded 12 tackles and his first sack of the season vs Seattle.

On April 17, 2010, Okur ruptured his Achilles ' tendon during the first game of the post-season against the Denver Nuggets, eliminating him from the remainder of the NBA playoffs, as well as the World Basketball Championships in his native Turkey later that summer.

After 2003 Mantilla's career went into decline, with the onset of injuries to his Achilles tendon and to his shoulder and the game moving at a speed that Mantilla's game could not keep up with.

As the player progresses through the game new weapons are unlocked, including a basic sword and shield, a basic bow, an upgraded sword and shield ( The Medusa Shield ), dual swords ( The Blades of Athena ), an upgraded bow ( The Bow of Power ), a very strong hammer ( Death-Biter ) and a spear ( Spear of Achilles ).