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. 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...
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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 66 ● ISBN 9781633849600 ● File size 0.4 MB ● Publisher Wilder Publications, Inc. ● Published 2015 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 4361535 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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