The club is named after one of Greek mythology's most famous heroes: Ajax the Great. In "The Iliad," Ajax fights in the Trojan War alongside his cousin, Achilles. Ajax later took his own life with ...

The Greek tragedy “Ajax” was written in ancient times, but it still has relevance, according to Clarissa Geske. Geske will be starring as Agamemnon in Eden Prairie High School’s upcoming ...

Legendary Dutch coach Rinus Michels once aptly summed up what he thought the beautiful game was about: "Football is war." Shots are fired, the opposing teams goal is besieged, the forwards must ...

Greek archaeologists say they have unearthed the remains of a 13th Century BC palace linked to the legendary warrior-king Ajax. In Homer's classic tale The Iliad the Achaean hero Ajax the Great fought ...

Commissioned in the early 1990s, as they embarked on another golden period under Louis van Gaal, the figure of Greek hero Ajax the Great — in full battle armour — is drawn with 11 lines each ...

Why Ajax and so many Dutch clubs have names from Greek myth. Story by Tom Chambers • 1y. T ales of the gods and monsters of Greek and Roman mythology have been told for millennia, ...

The club is named after one of Greek mythology's most famous heroes: Ajax the Great. In "The Iliad," Ajax fights in the Trojan War alongside his cousin, Achilles. Ajax later took his own life with ...