Ajax.
Beautiful Letters| N° d'inventaire | 5205 |
| Format | 11 x 18 |
| Détails | 124 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2001 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782251799636 |
Classic bilingual collection. Ajax, or how the tragic scene transforms one of the great figures of the Iliad into a lost, suffering character, doomed to an inglorious death in the name of the very values that made him famous. Sophocles scrutinizes the silences and ambiguities of the Homeric text to construct the portrait of a man who is a victim of the gods, but also of himself and of a world where he no longer has a place, that of the classical city: in his rage at having been deprived of Achilles' weapons in favor of Odysseus, Ajax decides to massacre the Greek leaders whom he accuses of deception, but the madness sent by Athena turns his hand towards the army's cattle, which have come to him, surrounded by their own people, but fundamentally alone like most of the great Sophoclean heroes, he commits suicide by throwing himself on his sword fixed to the ground. If Sophocles' tragedy benefits from being anchored in the historicity of Greek representations, the melancholic madness of Ajax and the echoes it arouses take place in a very long period, which encompasses our present.
Classic bilingual collection. Ajax, or how the tragic scene transforms one of the great figures of the Iliad into a lost, suffering character, doomed to an inglorious death in the name of the very values that made him famous. Sophocles scrutinizes the silences and ambiguities of the Homeric text to construct the portrait of a man who is a victim of the gods, but also of himself and of a world where he no longer has a place, that of the classical city: in his rage at having been deprived of Achilles' weapons in favor of Odysseus, Ajax decides to massacre the Greek leaders whom he accuses of deception, but the madness sent by Athena turns his hand towards the army's cattle, which have come to him, surrounded by their own people, but fundamentally alone like most of the great Sophoclean heroes, he commits suicide by throwing himself on his sword fixed to the ground. If Sophocles' tragedy benefits from being anchored in the historicity of Greek representations, the melancholic madness of Ajax and the echoes it arouses take place in a very long period, which encompasses our present.