Dec 24, 2009

Ajax | Ajax

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Author: Sophocles
First Published: 1729
Type of Work: Drama
Type of Plot: Tragedy
Time of Work: The Trojan War
Setting: Phrygia, before Troy
Genres: Drama, Tragedy
Subjects: Parents and children, Suicide, War, Fathers, Gods or goddesses, Greek or Roman times, Trojan War
Locales: Troy, ancient, Phrygia

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Ajax (AY-jaks), the son of Telamon and, excepting Achilles, the strongest and bravest of the Greeks who fought to win Troy. After Achilles was killed, his armor was claimed both by Ajax and by Odysseus; on the testimony of Trojan prisoners that Odysseus had been the more formidable foe, the Greeks awarded the coveted armor to him. Enraged and envious, Ajax left his tent by night, stealthily, to kill not only Odysseus but Agamemnon and Menelaus as well. The goddess Athena cast a madness upon him so that, thinking them Greek leaders, he massacred the flocks...

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Ajax | Ajax

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