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Polytropos Ajax : Roots, Evolution, and Reception of a Multifaceted Hero / edited by Silvia Speriani and Stephen Harrison.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; Volume 168.
- Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes Series ; Volume 168
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ajax (Greek mythological figure).
- Ajax.
- Heroes--History.
- Heroes.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (232 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin, Germany : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2024]
- Summary:
- Meanings are realized at the point of reception and this volume intends to offer an in-depth discussion of some of the meanings associated with and raised by the figure of Telamonian Ajax at various, specifically contextualized, and yet somehow connectable 'points of reception'.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Editors' Preface
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction
- Part I: Constructing Ajax
- A Primitive and yet Civilized Hero: Further Observations on Ajax in the Iliad
- Pre-Homeric Ajax
- Sophocles' Ajax between Achilles, Hector, and Odysseus
- Sophocles' Ajax: Solitude and Change
- A Hero through his Objects: The Construction of Ajax's Image on Attic Red-figure Vases
- Part II: Romanising Ajax
- Ajax and the Reception of the 'Alius Achilles' Theme in the Augustan Epic Tradition
- Ajax vs Hector and the Roman Single Combat
- Hero, Antagonist, and Cousin: Some Remarks on Telamonian Ajax in the Ilias Latina
- Siblings by Blood: Ajax and Teucer from the Iliad to the Ilias Latina
- Part III: Performing Ajax
- On Staging or not Staging Sophocles' Ajax
- Between Individual Trauma and Collective Mourning: The Reception of Sophocles' Ajax on French Stages in the 1990s
- Three Thousand Years of the Thousand-Yard Stare: The Experience of War, from the Ancient Greeks to Now
- What Made Ajax Kill Himself? An Existential Reading of Sophocles' Ajax
- List of Contributors
- General Index.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 3-11-145046-5
- OCLC:
- 1456761968
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