Download or read book Sophocles Ajax written by Sophocles and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. This edition attempts to show that Sophocles offers no easy answer to the question of why Ajax falls, and no simple solution to the problem of how we ought to live so as to avoid tragedy in our own lives. Greek text with facing-page English translation. With introduction and extensive commentary.