Whether true or not, Athena still had cause to be indignant, as Ajax had dragged a supplicant from her temple.

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.

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.

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.

The identification of Ajax with the family of Aeacus was chiefly a matter which concerned the Athenians, after Salamis had come into their possession, on which occasion Solon is said to have inserted a line in the Iliad ( 2. 557 – 558 ), for the purpose of supporting the Athenian claim to the island.

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.

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 has also had a satellite club in the United States under the name Ajax America, until it filed for bankruptcy.

However, when, under manager Jack Kirwan, the club got promoted to the top flight of Dutch football for the first time in 1911 ( then the Eerste Klasse or ' First Class ', later named the Eredivisie ), Ajax were forced to change their colours because Sparta Rotterdam already had exactly the same outfit.

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.

KFC had been founded in 1910, had nearly become National Champion in 1934 through a narrow loss to Ajax in the finals, and had been professional since 1955.

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

After signing Andy Carroll from Newcastle for a British record transfer fee of £ 35 million and Luis Suárez from Ajax for £ 22. 8 million at the end of January ( in the wake of Fernando Torres's sale to Chelsea for £ 50 million ), some journalists noted that Dalglish had begun to assert his authority at the club.

Proteus then answered truthfully, further informing Menelaus that his brother Agamemnon had been murdered on his return home, that Ajax the Lesser had been shipwrecked and killed, and that Odysseus was stranded on Calypso's Isle Ogygia.

* Ajax the Lesser, who had endured more than the others the wrath of the Gods, never returned.

Klaas-Jan Huntelaar had earlier opened the scoring for Ajax, making him the first goalscorer at the Emirates Stadium .< ref >

Another Feyenoord player, Robin van Persie had to be rescued by Ajax coach John van't Schip and player Daniël de Ridder.

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.

Ajax won the championship in 1966 and 1967, scoring a record breaking 122 goals including 33 from Johan Cruijff, and again in 1968, and reached the European Cup final of 1969 against AC Milan.

Ajax won the ' 87 Cup Winners Cup and reached the final again the following season.

The European Cup was a little kinder to Basel in 1970, as they reached the Second Round, losing to AFC Ajax, after defeating Soviets Spartak Moscow in the first round.

He was one of the key players as Ajax reached the quarter-finals of the 2002 – 03 Champions League, but he continued to be plagued by injuries, and much of the following season was once again spent on the sidelines.

Benfica also attracted Europe-wide attention when the team reached the semi-finals of the European Champions Cup, where the team was only narrowly defeated 1 – 0 on aggregate by the legendary Ajax side of that era.

Next season he was a regular again as Ajax reached the quarter-finals of the UEFA Champions League.

In 2006, after beating Skála Ítróttarfelag of the Faroe Islands in the first qualifying round of the UEFA Cup, and Drogheda United of Ireland in the second qualifying round ( after penalties ), they reached the first round of the UEFA Cup, where they were knocked out by AFC Ajax of the Netherlands.

In 1980, Arnesen and Ajax reached the semi-final of the European Cup, before they were eliminated by English team Nottingham Forest ( 2 – 0 away loss, 1 – 0 home win ).

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.

The club reached the final of the European Cup Winners ' Cup having beaten Ajax and Benfica on the road to Copenhagen, where they played Arsenal.

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.

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

The other side of the same artifact, depicting Ajax killing a Trojan prisoner in front of Charun.

In the same year Overmars became director of football at AFC Ajax.

That same day Ajax, the only opponent still in theory able to surpass AZ, lost 6 – 2 to PSV.

A shock 1 – 0 home victory over Ajax led to Stam's transfer to PSV Eindhoven in the same season in which they eventually won the KNVB Cup, his first professional trophy.

In 1996, he signed for Milan, but after an injury-hit season, he departed for FC Barcelona, where he spent the following seven years, arriving at the same time as countrymen and former Ajax boss Louis van Gaal: almost never an undisputed starter, he did manage to feature heavily for the Catalans, amassing more than 200 overall appearances and helping the club to back-to-back La Liga titles.

Blind is the father of professional footballer Daley Blind, who is contracted to the same club that Danny made his name at, AFC Ajax.

... it rightly decried the use of “ Jew ” as an insult, but never mentioned that just the same – deplorable – language is used by rival fans against Ajax in the Netherlands or Tottenham Hotspur in Britain.

Winter brought former colleague Bob de Klerk from Ajax to be his assistant coach, while Paul Mariner was also brought in the same day being named Director of Player Development at the club.

At their core, these frameworks use the same technology as JavaScript, Ajax, and the DOM.

By the same conformation of 1990, on 22 May 1996, the Stadio Olimpico hosted the UEFA Champions League Final between Juventus and Ajax, which saw the Bianconeri prevail in a penalty shoot-out.

In the 2012 edition of the Canon Lion City Cup, a few players from Singapore U-16 squad were singled out for praise by coaches of top academy teams from around the world, including CR Vasco da Gama, AFC Ajax Amsterdam, FC Porto and Manchester City, who also competed in the same youth tournament.

By that time Independiente had already won the 1972 Copa Libertadores, which allowed them to play the Intercontinental Cup that same year but Bochini was not part of the team that lost the tie to Ajax ..

In Australia, a number of memorable, if widely panned, television commercials were produced for Ajax Spray n ' Wipe from around 1988 to 2010, which were all accompanied with the same music, and featured soap actress Paula Duncan and the same family members.

He did the same ( 4-1 loss to AC Milan, scoring from the spot ) in 1969 European Cup Final final, before leading Ajax as captain to a 2-0 victory over Panathinaikos in 1971 European Cup Final final.