Ajax (play)

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title: Ajax (play)
text: Sophocles' Ajax, or Aias, is a Greek tragedy written in the 5th century BCE. Ajax may be the earliest of Sophocles' seven tragedies to have survived, though it is probable that he had been composing plays for a quarter of a century already when it was first staged. It appears to belong to the same period as his Antigone, which was probably performed in 442 or 441 BCE, when he was 55 years old. The play depicts the fate of the warrior Ajax, the second greatest hero at Troy, after the events of th
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description: Ancient Greek tragedy by Sophocles
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_(play)
date created: 2005-04-09T22:27:38Z
date modified: 2024-09-04T10:00:30Z
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