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Ajax and would
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.
Protesilaus, Ajax and Odysseus thus would not land.
Feijenoord would grow an intense rivalry with AFC Ajax.
In the quarter-finals in the 1995 KNVB Cup, Feyenoord visited Ajax, the team that would win the 1994 – 95 UEFA Champions League later that season.
Ajax could, however, still get second place, which would have ensured a place in the third qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League.
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.
The Achaean leaders were scared that another such blow would kill Ajax and they stopped the fight.
He begins as Ajax's slave, telling Ajax, " I would thou didst itch from head to foot and I had the scratching of thee ; I would make thee the loathsomest scab in Greece.
The flagship HMS Ajax was actually her sister-ship, and would have looked identical to Achilles, while the original HMS Exeter was a two-funnelled half-sister of the Cumberland.
From Cicero's remark, however, it would seem that the character of Ajax was rather too tragic for him.
In May 2008, Davids said he would leave Ajax when his contract expired on 30 June.
He would play another 23 games for Ajax in his first season, netting a total of 4 goals.
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
Ajax had agreed orally that if a lucrative offer for one brother came by, he would be released provided the other stayed.
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.
On 30 January 2006, it was announced that he would return to the Eredivisie and play for Ajax, where he signed a two-year contract for € 2. 5 million transfer fee.
When it was announced that he would be leaving Ajax at the end of the 2007 – 08 season, the fans gave him a fitting send-off by displaying a mosaic of him on the stands.
Moving to the position of technical director for Ajax at the beginning of the 2011 / 12 season, on February 9, 2012 it was announced that Danny Blind would retire from his duties as Technical Director at Ajax, concluding a heated dispute surrounding the clubs ' board of directors.
The first years of the ' new ' club were hard, but after 1992 / 1993, a new team filled with talents such as Jaap Stam ( who would later play for PSV, Manchester United, Lazio Roma, A. C. Milan and Ajax ), Bert Konterman ( Feyenoord and Rangers ), Johan Hansma ( SC Heerenveen ) and Henri van der Vegt ( Udinese ) played attractive and successful football.
This uses Ajax technology to query the remote website's database for most common search terms, and so differs from traditional browser autofill, where the form would typically be completed based on information the user had entered previously.
Halfway through the 2009-2010 season, FC Groningen announced that Ajax Youth Coach Pieter Huistra would take charge of FC Groningen after Ron Jans ' departure to SC Heerenveen.
While impressive at Ajax during the early 1990s towards the 1998 FIFA World Cup, his high-profile transfer to Barcelona marked what would be an unlikely bad patch for a prolific goal-scoring midfielder as he managed to feature in only 33 games for the club and only scored one goal overall.

Ajax and shield
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.
Ajax, with his great shield and spear, manages to drive off the Trojans, while Odysseus pulls the body to his chariot, and rides away with it to safety.
Homer is somewhat vague about the precise manner of Ajax's death but does ascribe it to his loss in the dispute over Achilles's shield: when Odysseus visits Hades, he begs the soul of Ajax to speak to him, but Ajax, still resentful over the old quarrel, refuses and descends silently back into Erebus.
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.
Ajax owned the biggest armour and the tallest shield which covered most of his body leaving only two places vulnerable ; his neck and armpits.
In Sophocles ' tragedy Ajax, the protagonist hands the shield to his son before committing suicide.
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.
The concept of using a shield to cover an archer dates to at least to the writing of Homer's Iliad, where Ajax uses his shield to cover his half-brother Teucer, an archer, while he would " peer round " and shoot arrows.
Ajax then gives his son, Eurysaces, his shield.

Ajax and Teucer
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.
Ajax often fought in tandem with his brother Teucer, known for his skill with the bow.
* Teucer, son of Telamon and half-brother of Ajax, stood trial by his father for his half-brother's death.
In the Iliad he was the father of Greek heroes Ajax the Great and Teucer the Archer by different mothers.
Due to Ajax committing suicide at Troy, Telamon banished Teucer from Salamis for not bringing his brother home.
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.
In Sophocles ' Ajax, Calchas delivers a prophecy to Teucer suggesting that the protagonist will die if he leaves his tent before the day is out.
When the Trojans attacked the wall newly built by the Greeks, Sarpedon led his men ( who also included Glaucus and Asteropaios ) to the forefront of the battle and caused Ajax and Teucer to shift their attention from Hector's attack to that of Sarpedon's forces.
The father of Nicocles, the succeeding king of Salamis, he claimed descent from Teucer, the son of Telamon and half-brother of Ajax, and his family had long been rulers of Salamis, although during his childhood Salamis came under Phoenician control, which resulted in his exile.
Teucer, Ajax ’ s brother, arrives in the Greek camp to taunting from his fellow soldiers.
Teucer sends a messenger to Ajax ’ s campsite with word of Calchas ’ prophesy.
Ajax also wishes for the first to find his body to be Teucer, so that he is not found by an enemy and his body left without a proper burial.
Tecmessa is the first to discover Ajax impaled on his sword, with Teucer arriving shortly after.
The play ends with Teucer making arrangements for the burial ( which is to take place without Odysseus, out of respect for Ajax ).

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