Looking at Ajax

Ajax is perhaps the earliest of Sophocles'' tragedies, yet the issues at its heart remain profoundly resonant today. Set in the Greek encampment during the siege of Troy, it traces not just the story of a respected war hero''s mental breakdown but (like Sophocles'' Antigone) the treatment of an enemy''s remains and the management of his memory. Pitting the fate of the individual against not just h...