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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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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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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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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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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Salamis Island (category Pages using the JsonConfig extension)
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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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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Trojan Horse (redirect from The trojan horse)
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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Damocles (redirect from The sword of damocles)
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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Tyndareus (section Curse of the goddess)
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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Meliboea is also an alternate name for Periboea or Eriboea, mother of Ajax the Great, who was also said to have been married to Theseus. Famous kings of...
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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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Ambrosia (redirect from Food of the gods (mythology))
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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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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Ouroboros (category Pages using the JsonConfig extension)
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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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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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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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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Orichalcum (category Pages using the JsonConfig extension)
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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for Periboea, wife of Telamon and mother of Ajax the Great. Eriboea, one of the Amazons. She was killed by the hero Heracles. Köppen, Johann Heinrich Just;...
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Pandora's box (category Pages using the JsonConfig extension)
brings about great troubles or misfortune, but also holds hope. In Greek mythology, Pandora's box was a gift from the gods to Pandora, the first woman...
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Golden Fleece (redirect from Quest of the Golden Fleece)
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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Cornucopia (category Pages using the JsonConfig extension)
are seen in the flag and state seal of Idaho. The Great Seal of North Carolina depicts Liberty standing and Plenty holding a cornucopia. The coats of arms...
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Teucer (category People of the Trojan War)
the Trojan War. 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...
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