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Sophocles: Ajax
Contributor(s): Sophocles (Author), Stanford, W. (Editor)
ISBN: 0862920094     ISBN-13: 9780862920098
Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
OUR PRICE:   $40.54  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: July 1991
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Collections | Ancient, Classical & Medieval
- History | Ancient - Greece
- Foreign Language Study | Ancient Languages (see Also Latin)
Dewey: 882
Series: Bcp Greek Texts
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.4" W x 8.5" (0.95 lbs) 375 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Cultural Region - Greece
 
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Publisher Description:

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 protagonist's 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.

Contributor Bio(s): Sophocles: - Sophocles was an ancient Greek playwright, the writer of Oedipus Rex and Antigone, among other classic works.