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	Botannical Lore: The Hyacinth - Folklore
		Another legend tells us that the hyacinth arose from the blood of Ajax who, when he was defeated by Ulysses in a quarrel over the arms of Achilles, was seized by a great fit of madness.
		From the blood of Ajax there rose a purple flower, bearing the inscription A I.
		This symbol is both the initials of Ajax and the sound " Ah, Ah, ", a sigh, and since then the symbol can be seen clearly in every hyacinth that grows.
	www.bellaonline.com /articles/art15692.asp (289 words)

	penc.txt
		Ajax In Greek mythology, Ajax was son of Telamon, king of Salamis, he was second only to Achilles among the Greek heroes in the Trojan War.
		Akhushtal In Maya mythology, Akhushtal is the goddess of childbirth.
		Adaro In the mythology of the Solomon Islands, Adaro is a sea-spirit.
	www.textfiles.com /etext/REFERENCE/penc.txt (18479 words)

	ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - Telamon
		Telamon, in Greek mythology, king of Salamis, the son of Aeacus, king of Aegina, and the father of the hero and warrior Ajax the Greater.
		Ajax, in Greek mythology, mighty warrior who fought in the Trojan War.
		Because the figure of Atlas supporting the Earth was often used in the title pages of early map collections, the word “atlas“ now denotes a volume of...
	au.encarta.msn.com /Telamon.html (104 words)

	Ed's Nike Missile Web Site
		The Nike surface to air missile system was named after the winged goddess of victory in Greek mythology.
		In 1963, there were 134 Nike Hercules and 77 Nike Ajax batteries defending the U. as per "Rings of Supersonic Steel".
		AJAX Historical Monograph also now in.pdf form Redstone
	ed-thelen.org (1845 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Ajax
		Ajax the Lesser, in Greek mythology, chieftain from Locris in central Greece.
		Ajax, in Greek mythology, mighty warrior who fought in the Trojan War.
		Cruyff was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and began his soccer career at age ten, when his mother enrolled him in the junior league team of the Ajax...
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Ajax.html (103 words)

	AllRefer.com - Ajax (Folklore And Mythology) - Encyclopedia
		AllRefer.com - Ajax (Folklore And Mythology)- Encyclopedia
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		Poseidon saved him, but Ajax, boasting of his own power, defied the lightning to strike him down and was instantly struck by it.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/A/Ajax.html (338 words)

	ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - Telamon
		Telamon, in Greek mythology, king of Salamis, the son of Aeacus, king of Aegina, and the father of the hero and warrior Ajax the Greater.
		Ajax, in Greek mythology, mighty warrior who fought in the Trojan War.
		Because the figure of Atlas supporting the Earth was often used in the title pages of early map collections, the word “atlas“ now denotes a volume of...
	au.encarta.msn.com /Telamon.html (96 words)

	Trojan War -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		Ajax went mad with grief and vowed to kill his comrades; he started killing cattle (thinking they were Greek soldiers), and then himself.
		Like Ajax, he is represented as living after his death in the island of (Click link for more info and facts about Leuke) Leuke at the mouth of the (The 2nd longest European river; flows into the Black Sea) Danube.
		Achilles' armour was the object of a feud between Odysseus and Ajax.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/tr/trojan_war.htm (6505 words)

	Ajax (mythology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ajax appears as one of the main characters in the computer game Age of Mythology
		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 (Pausanias 1.35).
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Telamonian_Aias (1510 words)

	Ajax 1, Greek Mythology Link.
		Ajax 1 was one of the SUITORS OF HELEN, and prominent among the ACHAEAN LEADERS.
		Ajax 1 killed the Lycian Glaucus 3, and gave Achilles' arms to be taken to the ships, while he, under a shower of darts, carried the body, while being covered by Odysseus, who fought his assailants.
		Ajax 1 was part of the embassy, the others being Phoenix 2 and Odysseus, who went to see Achilles in order to convince him to rejoin the fighting.
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/Ajax1.html (899 words)

	Ajax the Great - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ajax appears as one of the main characters in the computer game Age of Mythology
		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 (Pausanias 1.35).
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Telamonian_Aias (1516 words)

	Ajax 1, Greek Mythology Link.
		Ajax 1 was one of the SUITORS OF HELEN, and prominent among the ACHAEAN LEADERS.
		Ajax 1 killed the Lycian Glaucus 3, and gave Achilles' arms to be taken to the ships, while he, under a shower of darts, carried the body, while being covered by Odysseus, who fought his assailants.
		Aeacus, Aegina, Ajax 1, Alcathous 3, Ares, Asopus, Chariclo 3, Cychreus, Endeis, Eurysaces, Himas, Hippodamia 3, Ladon 1, Metope 1, Oceanus, Oenomaus 1, Pelops 1, Periboea 2, Philaeus 1, Pluto 3, Poseidon, Salamis, Tantalus 1, Tecmessa 1, Telamon, Teleutas, Tethys, Zeus.
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/Ajax1.html (899 words)

	Park News Online - Mythology, History, and the Cold War
		The first Nike system was dubbed Ajax, after a mythological Greek warrior.
		Perhaps Nike, the Greek goddess of victory, secretly decreed that truest measure of victory would be that none of her namesakes were fired in anger.
		Defenders of the early Nike systems maintained that the system’s best attribute was that the missiles were actually on the ground and ready for deployment—faint praise indeed.
	www.nps.gov /goga/parknews/library/wi02/content5.htm (935 words)

	Hyacinthus 1, Greek Mythology Link.
		The poet also says that later the blood of Ajax 1 produced the same flower, and that the letters remind of both this name and Apollo's cry of woe.
		The tomb of Hyacinthus 1 was below the image of Apollo in the city of Amyclae where the Lacedaemonians perfomed rites in honor of the god and Hyacinthus 1, known as the festival of the Hyacinthia.
		Some affirm that Hyacinthus 1 is immortal through the hyacinth, but others have said that Aphrodite, Athena, and Artemis carried him and his sister Polyboea 1, who died a maid, to heaven.
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/Hyacinthus1.html (570 words)

	Dictionary: Antimache to Arsippe, Greek Mythology Link.
		Arsinoe 3, daughter of Nicocreon from Salamis (a descendant of Teucer 1, half-brother of Ajax 1), was then turned into a stone [Lib.Met.39].
		Arsinoe 3 was loved by Arceophon, but as she refused him, he let himself die of hunger (a similar case is that of Anaxarete and Iphis 5).
		Arsinoe 1 was daughter of Phegeus 1, a Psophian son of the river god Alpheus [see also Robe and Necklace of Harmonia 1] [Apd.3.7.5-6; Pau.6.17.6].
	www.forumancientcoins.com /cparada/GML/001ShortEntries/SEAntimache.html (4668 words)

	Trojan War
		Agamemnon, Diomedes, Ajax, Hector, Paris, Aeneas, Glaucus, Nestor.
		Paris foolishly decided in Aphrodite's favour and awarded her the golden apple as the fairest of them all.
		At that time, Paris was living in Mount Ida with his wife, Oenone, a mountain nymph, but he abandoned her for Helen.
	www.timelessmyths.com /classical/trojanwar.html (10114 words)

	Trojan War Resources
		What follows is a selection from Bulfinch's Mythology (Chapter XXVII, Part Two) which describes the Trojan War from the standpoint of Homer's Iliad.
		Ajax, Menelaus, and the two sons of Nestor performed prodigies of valour.
		Nestor advised that an embassy should be sent to Achilles to persuade him to return to the field; that Agamemnon should yield the maiden, the cause of the dispute, with ample gifts to atone for the wrong he had done.
	www.historyguide.org /ancient/troy.html (4111 words)

	Ajax
		Ajax, the second-greatest Greek warrior in battlefield prowess because of his colossal size and strength, expects to receive the prize of prizes: Achilles' armor, which was made by the blacksmith god Hephaestus (Vulcan in Roman mythology).
		Homer and other storytellers often refer to Ajax as Ajax the Great or as the Telamonian Ajax to distinquish him from another Ajax who was the son of Ileus (or Oileus), King of Locris.
		Type of Work: Ajax is a stage play, a tragedy that recounts the events leading up to the death of Ajax the Great, one of the Greek heroes of the Trojan War.
	www.cummingsstudyguides.net /Ajax.html (4111 words)

	Aeacus
		Telamon - Telamon, in Greek mythology, son of Aeacus and father of Ajax.
		Aegina, in Greek mythology - Aegina, in Greek mythology, river nymph, daughter of the river god Asopus.
		Peleus- Peleus, in Greek mythology, son of Aeacus and the father of Achilles by Thetis.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/ent/A0802583.html (181 words)

	Rec Fresh : Article 'Titan (mythology)'
		These are stopped by Kastor, who realized he was tricked by the possesed Theocrat, along with Ajax and Amanra from Age of Mythology.
		In Greek mythology, the Titans (Greek Τιτάν, plural Τιτᾶνες) are among a series of gods who oppose Zeus and the Olympian gods in their ascent to power.
		This is a list of giants and giantesses from mythology and folklore; it does not include giants from modern fantasy fiction or role-playing games (for those, see list of species in fantasy fiction).
	www.rec-fresh.net /DisplayArticle48292.html (809 words)

	Neoptolemus
		In Greek mythology, Neoptolemus, also Neoptólemos or Pyrrhus, was the son of Achilles.
		Ten years later in the war, after the death of Achilles and Ajax the great and no signs of victory for the Greeks, the Greeks desperately captured the Trojan seer, Helenus, and forced him to tell them under what conditions could they take Troy.
		Helenus revealed to them that they could defeat Troy if they could achieve the poisonous arrows of Heracles (then in Philoctetes ' possession); steal the Palladium (which led to the building of the famous wooden horse of Troy); and persuade Achilles' son to join the war.
	www.mywiseowl.com /articles/Neoptolemus (809 words)

	AllRefer.com - Ajax (Folklore And Mythology) - Encyclopedia
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		AllRefer.com - Ajax (Folklore And Mythology) - Encyclopedia
		Poseidon saved him, but Ajax, boasting of his own power, defied the lightning to strike him down and was instantly struck by it.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/A/Ajax.html (809 words)

	The Aftermath of the Trojan War, Greek Mythology Link.
		There came also Diomedes 2, after having been driven from Argos, and also Teucer 1, whose father Telamon had banished from Salamis, for not having prevented the death of his half-brother Ajax 1.
		The Aftermath of the Trojan War, Greek Mythology Link.
		In Corinth, they planned to combine their forces and attack their lost kingdoms one at a time; but this plan could not be accomplished because, they say, Nestor opposed it, arguing that Hellas should not be torn to pieces by a series of civil wars.
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/AftermathTW.html (2024 words)

	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 2002275435
		Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Sophocles, Ajax, Ajax (Greek mythology) Drama
		Sophocles: Ajax is aimed at A level students in the UK and college students in North America.
		Publisher description for Ajax / Sophocles ; a new translation and commentary by Shomit Dutta ; introduction to the Greek theatre by P.E. Easterling.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/description/cam022/2002275435.html (131 words)

	Ajax 2, Greek Mythology Link.
		Ajax 2 was a brave man, but at the end of the war, when Troy was being sacked, he raped the seeress and princess Cassandra, who was clinging to the wooden image of Athena, which is believed to have been knocked over from its stand, as he dragged her away from the sanctuary.
		Ajax 2 was a brave man, but after the war he was destroyed by the gods on account of his outrageous behaviour during the sack of Troy.
		In one of these storms, Athena threw a thunderbolt against Ajax 2's ship; and when the ship went to pieces, he made his way safe to a rock, and declared that he was saved in spite of the intention of Athena.
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/Ajax2.html (497 words)

	Aegina (1) * People, Places, & Things * Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant
		Aegina and Zeus were the parents of Aeakus (Aeacus); Aeakus and Endies were the parents of Peleus and Telamon and the grandparents of Akhilleus (Achilles) and Aias (Ajax).
		Aegina (1) * People, Places, and Things * Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant
		andquot;People, Places andamp; Things: Aegina (1)andquot;, Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant.
	www.messagenet.com /myths/ppt/Aegina_1.html (291 words)

	T S A - Records for USS Ajax NCC-11574
		Named after two heroes from Greek mythology, Ajax of Salamis and Ajax of Locris, both of whom fought during the Trojan War.
		You can also use [Ajax] to link to a search for all ships of this name.
		The Ajax tested an experimental warp drive technology in 2364.
	www.starfleetarchive.com /ships/?id=60 (291 words)

	Ajax, Greece, Greek mythology
		Ajax was considered the second greates warrior after Achilles, and he was the one who carried the hero's dead body back to the camp while Odysseus held the Trojans back.
		Ajax fought well in the Trojan war, but when refused Achilles armous after the hero's death, he swore to kill Agamemnon and Menelaus.
		He was the struck by madness by the goddess Athena, who did not want this to happen, and comitted suicide in the way that was to be the Roman ideal : falling on his sword.
	www.in2greece.com /english/historymyth/mythology/names/ajax.htm (137 words)

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