Ajax | Essays and Criticism
- Renaissance Humanism and Heroic Nature
Metzger is a Ph.D., specializing in literature and drama at the University of New Mexico. In this essay, she discusses how Renaissance humanism and the heroic nature of the epic form sustains the modern appeal of Sophocles’s drama.
- Overview of Ajax
Walton provides an overview of Sophocles’s play, identifying the major characters and plot motivations.
- Sophocles's Ajax and Homer's Hector
In the following essay, Brown compares and contrasts the tangential subject matter in the writings of Sophocles and Homer.

