Ajax
122 pages
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ISBN: 9780521655644
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 21 May 2001
Description
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.