That they showed arrogance at its worst! Teucer Your murderer? Athena Yes, the slaughter was committed by this man. Teucer Who? At that I shut up and he ran out of the hut all alone. Come now, woman, quickly take this boy inside and shut the door. A name, a lament, a groan!

[Ajax has to compete with the smooth orator Odysseus to win Achilles’s armour. In Sophocles' Ajax, the playwright considers what happens when a hero's friends become his enemies. Messenger He’s just arrived from the battlefield. 910. 28 Sep. 2020. You’ve raised me from my bed.
I heard all the shouting the sons of Atreus were making over this brave man’s corpse, from quite a distance. • And now, here you are again, Odysseus!

If all my glorious past is gone, my friends, gone like these slaughtered animals, and all I’ll be remembered for is having so mindlessly chosen to slaughter these innocent beasts, then let the whole army raise their swords and strike me dead!

I’ve named you after it. Wild as you are, all that love you must love you still. Let those with wit take note: I will not live, I will not breathe any longer!

Eurysaces (Young son of Ajax and Tecmessa -silent). Is this how you treat your friends? Chorus How did it all begin? Odysseus If I would not care not for my own pain then for whose pain should I care? 1320. The herdsmen hadn’t yet separated the sheep from the cows. Ajax Walks out and around the hut. Fools never know the virtue of what they have in their hands until someone takes it away from them. The two Kings! Agamemnon and Menelaos, did you use your strong arm against them, as well? I stopped him from his mad urge to kill you, by throwing some potion into his eyes. Troy hates me, the very fields here hate me! Might as well be a Tyrrhenian trumpet shouting through its brass mouth! Chorus And not only do they believe his accusations but he who hears the tale enjoys it more than does its teller. Athena And the sons of Atreus? We’ve walked everywhere! Look at me when you’re lying to me! Both, Tecmessa and Eurysaces pull some strands of hair from their head. Enter nurse holding the hand of a very young Eurysaces. The Ájax's tragedy is basically about the pride of a powerfull warrior who seeks victory without the Gods help... and infuriate them because of his behaviour. And every man must know well that he is safe only when he can feel fear and shame and that if he is arrogant and disrespectful towards his city’s laws, then that city, even though it was sailing along well before, that city will eventually sink to the bottom. I’m calling for Teucer! A city which belongs to just one man is no true city. It is proper for you do so since my grand father, Aeacus, was your son. 130. Just in time to adorn this unfortunate man’s grave. Is that why she got so angry with you? Teucer my brother! Tecmessa My Lord, what’s in that head of yours? Let me show you now the madman and all his deeds, so that you can go and tell all the rest of the Argives what you saw. See what he’s done in there. J.-C. Sophocle est poète tragique grec, il est avec Eschyle et Euripide, un des seuls auteurs de tragédie grecque dont l'œuvre nous soit parvenue, même partiellement. I still relatively enjoyed it, just not as much as I was hoping I would. Tecmessa What about now? Where is that indomitable man? Chorus And I can hear the sound of her hands as they crash against her chest!

Big guy with the bronze armour. Ah, my son! What’s happened to him? As for Ajax, himself, it was what he wanted, it was the death he longed for. 1050. It’s true what they say: an enemy’s gift is never a gift; it does no one any good.

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