Monarch Notes, January 1st, 1963
Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Ajax (445? - 440? B.C.) Background: It is not known when the Ajax was presented, what other plays were presented with it, or what prize it won. Most scholars believe it to be the earliest surviving play by Sophocles. Ajax, son of Telamon, is regarded in the Iliad as the second most powerful warrior after Achilles. In Homer's other epic, the Odyssey, Ajax is seen in Hades by Odysseus, but he impressively refuses to speak. The events of the Ajax occur after the events recorded in the Iliad and before those in the Odyssey. When Patroclus fought his last battle in the Troj...
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