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.

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.

AZ's second championship was the first Eredivisie title in 28 years, and the first time since then that the Eredivisie was won by a team other than the " big three " ( Ajax, PSV and Feyenoord ).

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.

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 his first full season as Ajax No. 1 he won the Dutch Football Goalkeeper of the Year, he would then go on to retain the award for the next 3 consecutive years

He then went on to help Ajax become champions of the Eredivisie for the 2010 / 2011 season in a 3-1 home victory over FC Twente, the champions of the previous year, on the final matchday.

Born in Amstelveen, North Holland, Reiziger started his career with hometown's AFC Ajax, making his first-team debuts at the age of 17, then serving two consecutive loan spells, with FC Volendam and FC Groningen: with the latter, in the 1993 – 94 season, he scored a career-best six goals, while operating also as a midfielder.

He then made his official Ajax debut against Willem II after the winter break on 2 February 2003 in a 6 – 0 win.

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 ).

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.

Mokoena moved to Bayer Leverkusen and Ajax, before twice being loaned out to Germinal Beerschot and then transferring to KRC Genk for two years.

McManaman had also been noted for his versatility in his free role, switching from right to left wings, and his ability to play in central midfield, behind the front pair, or as a forward, with many notable managers including then Ajax coach Louis van Gaal, describing it as a role few could pull off the way McManaman had.

Ajax turned down a loan move from Real Betis for Mido in June. ref name =" Ajax turn down Betis approach "> Marseille were then believed to have made an offer for the striker and Celta were not ready to meet Ajax's asking price of € 15 million.

When this data is received via Ajax, the JavaScript program then uses the Document Object Model ( DOM ) to dynamically update the web page based on the new data, allowing for a rapid and interactive user experience.

When Cruyff was awarded a penalty kick in a Dutch Eredivisie league match against Helmond Sport on 5 December 1982, with Ajax leading 1-0, Cruyff passed the ball sideways to Olsen, who returned it to Cruyff, with the Dutchman then slotting the ball past the bemused goalkeeper to make the score 2-0.

He was then chosen to direct the youth side of AFC Ajax, a position he would occupy for five seasons.

15000 fans went to Belgrade to see Panathinaikos face the then very strong Red Star Belgrade while 20000 travelled to London's Wembley Stadium for the final against AFC Ajax.

In this case, when the page is rendered on the web browser, a piece of Ajax code would call back to the server and pass information about the client that can then be aggregated by a web analytics company.

Hector gives Ajax his sword, which Ajax will later use to kill himself.

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.

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.

Sophocles lets us hear the speech Ajax gives immediately before his suicide ( which, unlike in most Greek tragedies, where action and death are reported, is called for to take place onstage ), in which he calls for vengeance against the sons of Atreus ( Menelaus and Agamemnon ) and the whole Greek army.

Ajax () was a Greek mythological hero, son of Oileus, the king of Locris.

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

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

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

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

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

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

His mother was the daughter of Megacles, and could trace her family back to Eurysaces and the Telamonian Ajax.

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

He orders that Eurysaces be brought to him so that he will be safe from Ajax ’ s foes.