...This chapter presents examples to illustrate how the story of Ajax plays out in real-life situations. General Ulysses S. Grant, for instance, can be considered a modern Ajax in his use of words as well as in his military actions. Grant was a fine general despite being a poor student at the US...

...This chapter explains the author's rationale for retelling the story of Ajax. The story derives from Sophocles' play Ajax. Sophocles leaves much unsaid and unexplained, as in all his plays, and, most important, unjudged. He leaves to his audience the pleasure of judging...

...This chapter describes the main characters in the present retelling of Ajax's story: Odysseus, Agamemnon, Nestor, and Tecmessa. Odysseus is a man of deep reverence and compassion. Compassion comes easily to him because he has no principles, which are an obstacle to compassion. Agamemnon speaks...

...This chapter first distinguishes between clemency, pity, and compassion. It then discusses how Tecmessa and Odysseus both feel compassion for Ajax and how they use it in different ways. Odysseus's compassion holds him back from action upon seeing Ajax in his rage. Tecmessa's compassion rises from...

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.... But if we fail to give an honor, that is neither insult nor lack of respect. The chapter then states the Ajax dilemma this way: How can we prevent differences in rewards—which are inevitable in any community—from undermining a sense of mutual respect? community equality Frankfurt Harry Miller Arthur...

...This chapter focuses on Ajax, as one of the major characters in Homer's Iliadand the only hero in the story that never received direct help from a god. It looks into the Odyssey, which provides the earliest reference of Sophocles being concerned with Ajax. It also...

...Chapter 1 considers the uncanny agency of weapons in Sophocles’ Ajax, Sophocles’ Philoctetes, and Euripides’ Heracles. On stage, the sword cues audience awareness of the intertextual factors conditioning the hero’s decision-making, forcing...

... in 1986 (Sophocles’ Ajax) to a recent production of Handel’s oratorio Hercules(2011), Avery and Peter debate the meaning of Greek tragedy for our world, for our today, for our future. African Americans Hoffman Avery Willis racial issues and discrimination Sellars Peter...

...This chapter examines the concept of manhood as shown by Sophocles' tragedy Ajax. It states that in Ajax, Sophocles has used the word ‘man’ (anēr) 83 times, significantly more frequent than any of his plays, following a question on what a man is. It notes how...

... of truth” and this was achieved primarily through the verbal exchanges after the contest proper. Through a more detailed analysis of the funeral games, with a focus on the two biggest “losers” of the games, Eumelus and Ajax, it can be seen how the results of the games run contrary to the authoritative...

...This chapter explores one dimension of the play, Ajax. The oddities of the play revolve around two central themes — life and death — or, more particularly, the value of being alive and the value of being dead. The cohesion of the play becomes more apparent, and some of the oddities...

...As critics both ancient and modern have recognized, Sophocles’ Ajax is profoundly indebted to Homer. This chapter argues that the protagonist tracks the Iliadic Achilles’ developmental path in significant respects, but that Sophocles provides his own explanation of Ajax’s character...

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...2025 This chapter covers the notion of Athenian myth-making. It explains how Ajax and Oedipus at Colonus dramatize the origins of Athenian hero cults, while considering the conflicted relationships with a god or gods. Ajax’s problematic temperament results from...

.... Several operatic versions have been performed in China, for example King Edi at Shenzhen Grand Theatre in 2019. The avant-garde director Theodoros Terzopoulos’ Ajax (which premièred in 2005, was performed at the ancient theatre of Epidauros in 2008, and has toured...

... drama, and the majority of the ancient playwrights and the audience would have had direct experience of combat. By focusing on Aquila Theatre’s A Female Philoctetes, and Outside the Wire’s Theater of War Ensemble’s reading of Sophocles’ Ajax, I explore the ways in which...

... with Aiakid powers ready to hear its songs. This chapter looks at the legend involving Aiakos, Peleus, Phokos, Ajax, and Telamon, among other characters in Pindar's odes. HERODOTOS 1 34 1 PAUSANIAS PINDAR THUKYDIDES Doric Dorian Hellanios APOLLODORUS EPHOROS 70 F 176 Apollo Damia and Auxesia...

.... Fig. 1.7 Terracotta from Cyprus; 600–480 bce. Fig. 1.8 Attic amphora; c.525 bce. Fig. 1.9 The suicide of Ajax. Sandstone. Metope from the temple of Hera in Paestum; middle of the sixth century bce. Fig. 1.10 Protocorinthian ἀρύβαλλος; early...

... and Poseidon that have enabled the narrative retardation of Trojan victory. By the book’s end, despite the resistance of the Achaeans and the quasi-aristeia of Ajax, Hector is about to set fire to an Achaean ship. Thematically, this chapter treats the politics of the gods, the failures...