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Plays of Sophocles: Ajax (445? - 440? B.C.)

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Sophocles

Sophocles
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Ajax (445? - 440? B.C.)

Background:

It is not known when the Ajax was presented, what other plays were
presented with it, or what prize it won. Most scholars believe it to be the
earliest surviving play by Sophocles.

Ajax, son of Telamon, is regarded in the Iliad as the second most
powerful warrior after Achilles. In Homer's other epic, the Odyssey, Ajax is
seen in Hades by Odysseus, but he impressively refuses to speak. The events
of the Ajax occur after the events recorded in the Iliad and before those in
the Odyssey.

When Patroclus fought his last ...

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