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Ajax also hunted the Trojan flocks, both on Mount Ida and in the countryside.
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In later traditions, this Ajax is called a son of Oileus and the nymph Rhene and is also mentioned among the suitors of Helen.
Pausanias also relates that a gigantic skeleton, its kneecap in diameter, appeared on the beach near Sigeion, on the Trojan coast ; these bones were identified as those of Ajax.
* Ajax ( mythology ), son of Telamon, ruler of Salamis and a hero in the Trojan War, also known as " Ajax the Great "
* Ajax Orlando Prospects, also known as Ajax America, an American soccer team from Orlando, Florida
* Aspen Mountain ( Colorado ), United States, also known as Ajax Mountain
* Kanichee Mine, Temagami, Ontario, Canada, also known as Ajax Mine
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.
Cruijff departed prior to the second Cup Winners Cup final and with most of the 80's stars such as van Basten also leaving, Ajax once again declined.
Dutch national first-team players Ryan Babel, Wesley Sneijder, Rafael van der Vaart, Maarten Stekelenburg, Eljero Elia, André Ooijer, John Heitinga and Nigel de Jong had also came through the ranks at Ajax and all are now playing for top-flight clubs.
Ajax also regularly supplies the Dutch national youth teams with local talent.
Ajax has also expanded its talent searching program to South Africa with Ajax Cape Town.
Ajax has also had a satellite club in the United States under the name Ajax America, until it filed for bankruptcy.
:: 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.
That victory meant Ajax had won every tournament ( 5 in total ) they entered that year, a feat Celtic achieved in 1967 ( with 6 trophies ) and Barcelona ( also 6 trophies ) repeated in 2009.
The alternative term, telamones, also is derived from a later mythological hero, Telamon, one of the Argonauts, who was the father of Ajax.
Feyenoord also have a fierce rivalry abroad in Tottenham Hotspur, who following several violent clashes with the club coupled with a link to Ajax are not popular with the Rotterdam club.
Ajax is also the name of the escaped gorilla who appears in the short film Donald Duck and the Gorilla ( 1944 ).
Ajax and Trojan
Ajax, wielding an enormous spear as a weapon and leaping from ship to ship, holds off the Trojan armies virtually single-handedly.
* Ajax the Lesser, son of Oileus, ruler of Locris and the leader of the Locrian contingent during the Trojan War.
* Cleopatra and Periboea of Locris, two maidens sent to the Trojan temple of Athena in retribution for Ajax the Lesser's sacrilege
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.
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.
He fought alongside his half-brother, Ajax, in the Trojan War and is the legendary founder of the city of Salamis on Cyprus.
During the Trojan War, Teucer was mainly a great archer, who loosed his shafts from behind the giant shield of his half-brother Ajax the Great.
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.
He and his brothers helped carry Ajax off the battlefield during the Trojan War when he was injured.
During the Trojan campaign, she was taken captive by the Greeks and was given to Ajax, by whom she became mother of Aeantides.
He was a Trojan warrior and killed, during the Trojan War, by Ajax.
During the Trojan War, Telamonian Ajax kills Tecmessa's father and takes her captive ; his reason for doing so may have been, as the 1st century BC Roman poet, Horace, wrote, that Ajax was captivated by Tecmessa's beauty.
The other side of the same artifact, depicting Ajax killing a Trojan prisoner in front of Charun.
An Etruscan krater from François Tomb ( above ) depicts Charun with Ajax or Achilles ( left, cropped out ) slaughtering Trojan prisoners.
The lost epic Little Iliad, in four books, took up the story of the Homeric Iliad, and, beginning with the contest between Telamonian Ajax and Odysseus for the arms of Achilles, carried it down to the feast of the Trojans over the captured Trojan Horse, according to the epitome in Proclus, or to the Fall of Troy, according to Aristotle.
The Sack of Troy ( Iliou Persis ) told the stories of the Trojan Horse, Sinon, and Laocoön, the capture of the city, and the departure of the Greeks pursued by the anger of Athena at the rape of Cassandra by Ajax the Lesser.
Shortly thereafter, a challenge to single combat arrives from Prince Hector, the greatest Trojan warrior, and Ulysses decides to have Ajax, a headstrong fool, fight Hector instead of Achilles, in the hopes that this snub will wound Achilles's pride and bring him back into the war.
Ajax and both
The first half was played by members of Arsenal and Ajax's current squads, while the second was played by famous ex-players from both sides, including Ian Wright, Patrick Vieira, Marc Overmars, Emmanuel Petit and David Seaman for Arsenal, and Marco van Basten, Danny Blind, Johan Cruijff, Frank and Ronald de Boer for Ajax.
With his eventual hiring as Feyenoord manager, Koeman became the first to ever serve as both player and head coach at all teams of the so-called " traditional big three " of Dutch football: ( AFC Ajax, PSV Eindhoven and Feyenoord itself ) Moreover, he played and managed these teams in the same order.
In the past there have been many clashes between the supporters of both clubs, of which the Beverwijk clash in 1997 is the most infamous, with Ajax fan Carlo Picornie being killed and several others injured.
In 2004 Feyenoord player Jorge Acuña was taken to hospital with head, neck and rib injuries after Feyenoord players were attacked by Ajax hooligans during a match between the reserve teams of both clubs.
Among the contenders were Odysseus, Ajax the great, Diomedes, Achilles, Patroclus, Idomeneus, and both Menelaus and Agamemnon.
This was due to both Dutch Cup finalists Ajax and PSV qualifying for the recently expanded Champions League.
Anderlecht won it in both 1976 an 1978, and finished runners up in between, and Ajax failed to defend their title in 1988, losing out to K. V.
It was invented by Rinus Michels, a famous Dutch football trainer / coach ( who was the coach of both Ajax and the Netherlands national team at the time ).
* Burbank Arena skating rink on Haverhill St. as well as private condos on Bear Hill St. both reside over the sites of decommissioned Army National Guard Nike Ajax missile silos.
Under Van Gaal, Ajax became the Eredivisie champions three times, in 1994, 1995 ( notably going the entire 94 – 95 league season unbeaten in both the league and the Champions League ) and 1996.
" I am happy that the KNVB approached me ," said Van Gaal, who will be assisted by former Dutch internationals Danny Blind and Patrick Kluivert, both part of his successful Ajax squad from 1995.
He won both the UEFA Cup and Champions League while at Ajax.
However Ajax apparently backed down on that agreement after floating the club on the stock market and pledging to shareholders that it would hold both of the De Boers and build around them a team to recapture the UEFA Champions League.
Due to the fact Ajax and the other finalist ( PSV ) both qualified for the cupfinal a decision match was needed to fill in the vacant spot to the next UEFA Cup Winners ' Cup.
He played his entire career for the club Ajax Amsterdam, which he later coached, and was a member of the Netherlands national team both as a player and as manager.
Through such appointment, Koeman has notably become the first man ever to serve as both player and head coach at all teams of the so-called " traditional big three " of Dutch football ( AFC Ajax, PSV Eindhoven and Feyenoord itself ).
Their opponents AFC Ajax, were in both matches clearly better, winning twice 3-1.
Maccabi fans have an agreement known as ' brotherhood ' with the fans of Ajax thanks to the hospitality of both sides from the 2004 / 2005 season until today.
Almost in the style of a speech balloon he has both players announce the numbers they cast with their dice — Ajax a three and Achilles a four.
In late October 1998, Zajec replaced Zlatko Kranjčar as manager at Dinamo Zagreb ( then known as Croatia Zagreb ), following Kranjčar's poor record in the UEFA Champions League group stage, where the team only managed to grab a single point in three matches ( drawing with Ajax at home, before losing to both Olympiacos and Porto on the road ).
Another interesting case came in 2009, when Real Madrid purchased both Klaas-Jan Huntelaar and Lassana Diarra – both of whom had already played European football during the season for Ajax and Portsmouth respectively – during the winter transfer window.
In both Qatari clubs, he was reunited again with his brother Frank, his teammate at Ajax, Barcelona and Rangers.
De Boer was never officially captain of the Dutch national team or Ajax, but he has worn the captain's armband on several occasions for both club teams and the national team when the first-choice captain was not playing.
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