Ajax / edited with an introduction, translation & commentary by A.F. Garvie.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Sophocles, author.

Contributor:

• Garvie, A. F., editor, translator, writer of added commentary.

Series:

• Aris & Phillips classical texts.
• Liverpool scholarship online.
• Aris & Phillips classical texts
• Liverpool scholarship online

Language:

• English
• Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Subjects (All):

• Ajax (Greek mythological figure)--Drama.
• Homer. Iliad.
• Odysseus, King of Ithaca (Mythological character).
• Sophocles--Translations into English.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021.

Language Note:

Introduction, and commentary in English, play in Ancient Greek with parallel English translation.

Summary:

'Ajax', perhaps the earliest surviving tragedy of Sophocles, presents the downfall and disgrace of a great hero whose suicide leads to his rehabilitation through the enlightened magnanimity of one of his enemies.

Notes:

• Previously issued in print: Oxford: Aris & Phillips, 1998.
• Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 25, 2021).
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contains:

• Sophocles. Ajax.
• Sophocles. Ajax. English

ISBN:

• 1-80034-320-5
• 1-80034-664-6