Sophocles' Ajax and the Heroic Values of the Iliad

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ID9367403
AutoresGraham Zanker (University of Canterbury, autor correspondente)
Ano1992
Volume42
Fascículo1
Páginas20-25
Data de publicação1992-05-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Classical Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0009-8388 • E-ISSN: 1471-6844
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0009838800042543
OpenAlexW2057299092
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas15
Referências citadas7

From a careful and persuasive analysis of Sophocles' debt in the Ajax to Homer's picture of Hector and Andromache's farewell in Iliad 6, P. E. Easterling concludes that in the Ajax ‘we have the paradox of an author's distinctive originality finding expression through his reading of another's work’. In what follows I wish to show that the validity of this statement extends to an aspect of the play which is touched upon by Easterling (indeed in an illuminating way), but which I would like to single out for special attention: the preoccupation with the problem of what constitutes noble action, or, in the play's own terminology, what is the nature of εὐγένεια

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