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Page 83
... Ajax . Caesar's spirit lives on , a giant among pygmies ; Ajax is scorned by the Atreidae and not even defended by Odysseus . It is just as idle to talk of the " rehabilitation " of Ajax : Teucer is a match for the Atreidae in ...
... Ajax . Caesar's spirit lives on , a giant among pygmies ; Ajax is scorned by the Atreidae and not even defended by Odysseus . It is just as idle to talk of the " rehabilitation " of Ajax : Teucer is a match for the Atreidae in ...
Page 84
... Ajax and his spiritual daring ; this , and the poetry which Sophocles entrusts to him , convince us that in spite of ... Ajax brood- ing , or with Tecmessa lamenting , but with Odysseus . Why Odysseus ? The play ends too with Odysseus ...
... Ajax and his spiritual daring ; this , and the poetry which Sophocles entrusts to him , convince us that in spite of ... Ajax brood- ing , or with Tecmessa lamenting , but with Odysseus . Why Odysseus ? The play ends too with Odysseus ...
Page 85
... Ajax because of his evil fate he urges his burial " thinking of my own interests as much as his , for I too shall ... Ajax , at least as essential to the play , much more essential than Teucer . The unifying theme is the antagon- ism of ...
... Ajax because of his evil fate he urges his burial " thinking of my own interests as much as his , for I too shall ... Ajax , at least as essential to the play , much more essential than Teucer . The unifying theme is the antagon- ism of ...
Contents
HOMER The Iliad or The Poem of Force | 3 |
AESCHYLUS Introduction to the Oresteia | 51 |
Sophocles | 78 |
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