Ajax

Ajax

122 pages
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Published: 1 Jan 0441
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ISBN: 9780521655644

Format: Paperback

Language: English

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Publication date: 21 May 2001

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Written in the fifth century B.C., Sophocles' tragedy concerns the shame and death of Ajax, a Greek who had won fame for his prodigious strength in the Trojan War. A brutal farewell to the valor and values of the heroic world, the play moves through a series of reversals: old allies become enemies, honor becomes disgrace, and divine power becomes temporal authority.