Edwin van der Sar () ( born 29 October 1970 ) is a Dutch former footballer who played as a goalkeeper for Ajax, Juventus, Fulham and Manchester United.

De Meer Stadion () is the name of the former stadium of AFC Ajax.

* " Atlas " was the former name for ASP. NET AJAX, Microsoft software, a set of ASP. NET extensions providing Ajax functionality

He was called the " lesser " or " Locrian " Ajax, to distinguish him from Ajax the Great, son of Telamon.

When the grammatical dual form of Ajax is used in the Iliad, it was once believed that it indicated the lesser Ajax fighting side-by-side with Telamonian Ajax, but now it is generally thought that that usage refers to the Greater Ajax and his brother Teucer.

In punishment for this presumption, Poseidon split the rock with his trident and Ajax was swallowed up by the sea.

Odysseus, at least, accused him of this crime and Ajax was to be stoned to death, but saved himself by establishing his innocence with an oath.

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.

In these versions, when Ajax came to the Capharean Rocks on the coast of Euboea, his ship was wrecked in a fierce storm, he himself was lifted up in a whirlwind and impaled with a flash of rapid fire from Athena in his chest, and his body thrust upon sharp rocks, which afterwards were called the rocks of Ajax.

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.

The story of Ajax was frequently made use of by ancient poets and artists, and the hero who appears on some Locrian coins with the helmet, shield, and sword is probably this Ajax.

The abduction of Cassandra by Ajax was frequently represented in Greek works of art, for instance on the chest of Cypselus described by Pausanias and in extant works.

Ajax or Aias ( or ; ) was a mythological Greek hero, the son of Telamon and Periboea, and king of Salamis.

Ajax is the son of Telamon, who was the son of Aeacus and grandson of Zeus, and his first wife Periboea.

After several days of competition, Odysseus and Ajax are tied for the ownership of the magical armor which was forged on Mount Olympus by the god Hephaestus.

Ajax, who in the post-Homeric legend is described as the grandson of Aeacus and the great-grandson of Zeus, was the tutelary hero of the island of Salamis, where he had a temple and an image, and where a festival called Aianteia was celebrated in his honour.

Like most of the other Greek leaders, Ajax is alive and well as the Iliad comes to a close.

* Ajax ( Sophocles ), a play by the ancient Greek tragedian Sophocles

Amsterdamsche Football Club Ajax (), also referred to as AFC Ajax, Ajax Amsterdam or simply Ajax ( after the legendary Greek hero ), is a professional football club from Amsterdam, Netherlands.

In 1928, the club logo was introduced with the head of the Greek hero Ajax.

The original Greek chorus sang its part in Greek drama, and fragments of works by Euripides ( Orestes ) and Sophocles ( Ajax ) are known from papyri.

Menelaus appears as a character in a number of 5th-century Greek tragedies: Sophocles ' Ajax, and Euripides ' Andromache, Helen, Orestes, Iphigenia at Aulis, and The Trojan Women.

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.

In the Iliad he was the father of Greek heroes Ajax the Great and Teucer the Archer by different mothers.

Odysseus, unsuccessfully, tried to persuade the Greek leaders to put Ajax to death, by stoning the Locrian leader ( to divert the goddess's anger ).

Diomedes and other Greek leaders disagreed because Ajax himself clung to the same statue of Athena in order to save himself.

The failure of Greek leaders to punish Ajax the lesser for the sacrilege of Athena's altar resulted in earning her wrath.

He fought valiantly and is often listed amongst the first rank of Greek heroes such as Idomeneus, Diomedes, Ajax, etc.

Eurysaces in Greek mythology was the son of the Telemonian Ajax and the former-princess captive-slave girl Tecmessa.

Eight ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Ajax after the Greek hero Ajax:

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

: Ajax is the name of a Greek mythological hero.

In Sophocles ' play Ajax, a famous retelling of Ajax's demise takes place — after the armor is awarded to Odysseus the hero Ajax falls to the ground, exhausted.

Ajax then became an Attic hero ; he was worshiped at Athens, where he had a statue in the market-place, and the tribe Aiantis was named after him.

* Ajax ( mythology ), son of Telamon, ruler of Salamis and a hero in the Trojan War, also known as " Ajax the Great "

* Ajax: A mythic Greek hero of the Trojan war, in the game a former companion of Arkantos who helps Kastor deal with the consequences of the Titans ' release.

Stansbury-O ’ Donnell gives an example of this in the form of a picture by the ancient Greek artist Exekia which shows the Greek hero Ajax planting his sword in the ground in preparation to commit suicide, instead of the actual suicide scene.

He was again a penalty hero when he converted twice against Real Zaragoza in the European Super Cup Final of 1995, which Ajax won 4 – 1 over the two legs.

" Faber further noted errors in Zimmern's work, ( for example in Aphorism 61 where Schaf ( sheep ) is translated by Zimmern as fool where the reference is to Sophocles ' play Ajax in which the hero charges a herd of sheep )-and bowdlerizations.

Moreover, there are many remnants of the ancient town of Salamina which was a significant economic power between 350 and 318 BC when the town minted coins bearing the shield of the legendary hero Ajax.

In later traditions, this Ajax is called a son of Oileus and the nymph Rhene and is also mentioned among the suitors of Helen.

To distinguish him from Ajax, son of Oileus ( Ajax the Lesser ), he is called " Telamonian Ajax ," " Greater Ajax ," or " Ajax the Great ".

* Ajax the Lesser, son of Oileus, ruler of Locris and the leader of the Locrian contingent during the Trojan War.

Ajax son of Telamon laid waste the Thracian peninsula of which Polymestor, a son-in-law of Priam, was king.

* Teucer, son of Telamon and half-brother of Ajax, stood trial by his father for his half-brother's death.

It is usually thought to be a warlike song about Telamon's son Ajax, though some other commentaries thought it to be a mournful song about Telamon himself.

Hesione was taken home by Telamon, married him and bore him a son Teucros who would be half-brother to Telamon's son from his first marriage Ajax.

According to tradition the founder of Salamis was Teucer, son of Telamon, who could not return home after the Trojan war because he had failed to avenge his brother Ajax.

According to the foundation myth, the founder of Salamis is said to be Teucer, son of Telamon, who could not return home after the Trojan war because he had failed to avenge his brother Ajax.

According to the tradition followed by Sophocles in his play Ajax and by Euripides in his lost play Cretan Women ( Kressai ), Catreus found Aerope in bed with a slave and handed her over to Nauplius to be drowned, but Nauplius spared Aerope's life and she married Atreus, the son of Pelops, and king of Mycenae, though in the version of the story used by Euripides, she married Pleisthenes instead.

*" Father Jove, grant that the lot fall on Ajax, or on the son of Tydeus, or upon the king of rich Mycene himself.

He even got the better of Ajax, son of Telamon, in an armed sparring tournament, but the bout was called off prematurely.