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Sophocles: Ajax (Greek Texts)

paperback – June 1, 1991
by Sophocles
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ISBN-13: 9780862920098 ISBN-10: 0862920094
Publisher
Bristol Classical Press
Binding
paperback
Published
June 1, 1991
Weight
1.0 lbs
Dimensions
21.60×2.00×14.00 cm

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Sophocles: Ajax (Greek Texts) by Sophocles. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780862920098.

Sophocles Ajax is one of the most disturbing and powerful surviving ancient tragedies. But it is also difficult to understand and interpret. What are we to make of its protagonists extremism? Does Ajax deserve the isolation and divine punishment he experiences? Why is his state of mind so difficult to determine? Dr Hesk offers answers to these and many other questions by drawing together the very latest critical work on the play and introducing the reader to key frames for its interpretation, including Sophoclean heroism, language and form; Homeric intertextuality and Athens masculinist culture, and the twentieth-century reception of Ajax.