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    the war. He is also referred to as "Telamonian Ajax" (Αἴας ὁ Τελαμώνιος, in Etruscan recorded as Aivas Tlamunus), "Greater Ajax", or "Ajax the Great"...
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  • Ajax or AJAX in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ajax may refer to: Ajax the Great, a Greek mythological hero, son of King Telamon and Periboea Ajax the...
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    called the "Ajax the Less", the "lesser" or "Locrian" Ajax, to distinguish him from Ajax the Great, son of Telamon. He was the leader of the Locrian...
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    The last successful Ajax line extension in North America, Ajax for Dishes (now known as Ajax Dishwashing Liquid) debuted in 1971. Currently, Ajax Powdered...
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  • Telamon (category Characters in the Argonautica)
    Argonauts, and was present at the hunt for the Calydonian Boar. In the Iliad, he was the father of Greek heroes Ajax the Great and Teucer by different mothers...
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  • This is a list of people known as the Great, or the equivalent, in their own language. Other languages have their own suffixes, such as Persian e Bozorg...
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  • Priam's children were slain by the Greeks in the course of the war, or shortly after. The three main sources for the names of the children of Priam are: Homer's...
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  • Glaucus (mythology) (category People of the Trojan War)
    and one of the sons of King Priam by an unknown woman. He and his brothers, Antiphus, Agavus and Agathon, were all slain by Ajax the Great. Glaucus, son...
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    Diomedes (category Characters in the Aeneid)
    Iliad Diomedes is regarded alongside Ajax the Great and Agamemnon, after Achilles, as one of the best warriors of all the Achaeans in prowess (which is especially...
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    List of Trojan War characters (category People of the Trojan War)
    narratives concerning the Trojan War. * See Catalogue of Ships ** See Trojan Battle Order This table lists characters killed during the war, and who was responsible...
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    Iliad (redirect from The Iliad)
    challenges the great Ajax: I know how to storm my way into the struggle of flying horses; I know how to tread the measures on the grim floor of the war god...
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    father of Ajax the Great and Teucer Teucer, the half-brother of Ajax the Great, son of Telamon, warrior of Trojan War, and founder of the city-state...
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    a great wooden horse (the horse being the emblem of Troy), hiding an elite force inside, and fooling the Trojans into wheeling the horse into the city...
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    mainstream. According to the story, Damocles was flattering his king, Dionysius, exclaiming that Dionysius was truly fortunate as a great man of power and authority...
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    hand or sent emissaries to do so on their behalf. Among the contenders were Odysseus, Ajax the Great, Diomedes, Idomeneus, and both Menelaus and Agamemnon...
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    Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In the ancient Greek myths, ambrosia (/æmˈbroʊziə, -ʒə/, Ancient Greek: ἀμβροσία 'immortality') is the food or drink of the Greek...
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    Menelaus (category Characters in the Odyssey)
    Menestheus, Ajax the Great, Patroclus, and Idomeneus. Most offered opulent gifts. Tyndareus would accept none of the gifts, nor would he send any of the suitors...
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    Erinyes (redirect from The Erinyes)
    Theogony, when the Titan Cronus castrated his father, Uranus, and threw his genitalia into the sea, the Erinyes (along with the Giants and the Meliae) emerged...
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    mentioned in several ancient writings, including the story of Atlantis in the Critias of Plato. Within the dialogue, Critias (460–403 BC) says that orichalcum...
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  • named Ajax for Ajax the Great, a figure from Greek mythology: Ajax (1759 EIC ship), of 655 tons (bm), was built by Perry, Blackwall. She sailed for the British...
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    the left hand of Mercury, the messenger of the gods. Some accounts assert that the oldest imagery of the caduceus is rooted in Mesopotamia with the Sumerian...
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    buried beneath the Sea of Sand after the Serpentine War. The city was key to Pythor and the Serpentine's efforts to awaken the Great Devourer, which...
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  • Achilles Agamemnon (the leader) Ajax the Great Ajax the Lesser Diomedes Idomeneus Menelaus Odysseus Patroclus Philoctetes Face of the Trojan War, Achilles...
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    Athena (redirect from Athena the virgin)
    In Sophocles's tragedy Ajax, she punishes Odysseus's rival Ajax the Great, driving him insane and causing him to massacre the Achaeans' cattle, thinking...
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    Argonauts (redirect from The argonauts)
    the great numbers of birds. Following Phineus' advice they seized shields and spears, and dispersed the birds by the noise, after the manner of the Curetes...
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  • Trojan Women by Euripides. The novel features appearances by many characters from the Iliad including Priam, Nestor, Ajax the Great, Agamemnon, and Helen of...
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    unlimited)." The sources and limits of the earth, the sea, the sky, Tartarus, and all things are located in a great windy-gap, which seems to be infinite...
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  • Eurynomus (mythology) (category Characters in the Odyssey)
    was the father of Hippios, who was devoured by Sphinx, and of Orsinome, who married Lapithes. Eurynomos, a defender of Troy killed by Ajax the Great. Eurynomus...
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    the throne of Iolcus in Thessaly. Through the help of Medea, they acquire the Golden Fleece. The story is of great antiquity and was current in the time...
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  • abuse on the way from Athens to Crete She was mother by Telamon of Ajax the Great; the most detailed story of her marriage to Telamon in Plutarch, Parallela...
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