Aias
Start Publishing LLC · Print & ebook · August 24, 2015
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- Who it’s for
- Sophocles makes honor feel perilously fragile in this tragedy of insult, delusion, and shame.
- Genres
- Classical Plays
- Published
- Start Publishing LLC, August 24, 2015
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Sophocles' play is a famous retelling of Aias's (Ajax's) demise. After the armor is awarded to Odysseus, Aias feels so insulted that he wants to kill Agamemnon and Menelaus. Athena intervenes and clouds his mind and vision, and he goes to a flock of sheep and slaughters them, imagining they are the Achaean leaders, including Odysseus and Agamemnon.
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When he comes to his senses, covered in blood, he realizes that what he has done has diminished his honor, and decides that he prefers to kill himself rather than live in shame.
Honor Under Strain
Sophocles makes honor feel perilously fragile in this tragedy of insult, delusion, and shame.
Come here for
- The collision of wounded honor and disastrous misjudgment
- A Greek tragedy with a stark question of shame
Expect
- A concentrated encounter with classical tragic stakes
- A grim turn from imagined vengeance to painful recognition
Where it sits
| Classical Plays | 100% |
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Publisher categories
- Classical Plays
- Historical Fiction
- Christian Fiction
- Authors
- Sophocles
- Publisher
- Start Publishing LLC
- Published
- August 24, 2015
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Classical Plays