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Brought boldly to life by Herbert Golder and Richard Pevear's translation and contextualized by Herbert Golder's eloquent introduction, this early Sophoclean tragedy tells the story of the Homeric hero better known as Ajax, who was second only to Achilles among the Greek warriors. In Greek tradition, Aias figures as the archaic warrior who dies in shame after his betrayal by the Greeks. Sophocles turns tradition inside out, portraying Aias' suicide not as a disgrace but as heroism.
He endows Aias' suicide with a meaning radically different from previous versions of the Aias myth - Aias is not the hero whom time has passed by, but rather the man who steps beyond time. Most previous versions and interpretations have equivocated over Sophocles' bold vision. This edition of Aias translates precisely that transformation of the hero from the bygone figure to the man who transcends time.
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Drama, Ajax (Greek mythology), Translations into English, Heracles (Greek mythology), Translations into Italian, Criticism and interpretation, Greek drama (Tragedy), Electra (Greek mythology), open_syllabus_project, Sophocles, Greek drama, translations into english, Continental european drama (dramatic works by one author)People
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Ajax
1870, Hachette
in French
- Nouv. éd. / publiée avec une notice, un argument analytique et des notes en français, par Ed. Tournier.
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Edition Notes
Bibliography: p. 307-311.
Reprint of the ed. published by Macmillan, London; St. Martin's Press, New York, in series: Macmillan's classical series for colleges and schools.
Includes indexes.
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