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Aias
Sophocles
Start Publishing LLC · Print & ebook · August 24, 2015
Reading lane: Classical Plays
A Plays pick for readers exploring Aias.
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- Authors
- Sophocles
- Publisher
- Start Publishing LLC
- Published
- August 24, 2015
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Classical Plays · Historical Fiction
- Reading lane
- Classical Plays
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Classical Plays
Historical Fiction
Christian Fiction
About This Book
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 p...
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