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The fall-out from dissent: hero and audience in Sophocles' Ajax
- Abstract:
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Sophocles’ Ajax has long confounded critics. As a study of the great hero figure it has been found wanting, on the basis that Ajax kills himself half-way through the play. On the other hand, the characters left in his wake have been criticised for destroying the tragic gravity by engaging in petty quarrelling over his body. This paper makes sense of the character of Ajax and the structure of the play by pointing to the strong Iliadic resonances at the beginning of the drama, as Ajax plays the...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Greece & Rome Journal website
- Volume:
- 51
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 1-20
- Publication date:
- 2004-04-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1477-4550
- ISSN:
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0017-3835
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- Copyright holder:
- The Classical Association
- Copyright date:
- 2004
- Notes:
- Citation: Barker, E. (2004). 'The fall-out from dissent: hero and audience in Sophocles' Ajax', Greece & Rome, 51(1), 1-20. [Available at http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=GAR].
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