Speriani / Harrison Polytropos Ajax

Roots, Evolution, and Reception of a Multifaceted Hero
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-3-11-145114-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 168, 231 Seiten

Reihe: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes

Meanings are realized at the point of reception and this volume intends to offer an in-depth discussion of some of the meanings associated with and raised by the figure of Telamonian Ajax at various, specifically contextualized, and yet somehow connectable ‘points of reception’.

Part 1 looks at how, and from where, and with what effects, the epic and tragic figure of Ajax is constructed and re-defined in archaic and classical Greece. Part 2 moves on to Roman Ajax(es), evaluating how he is used in and by Latin literature as a tool for window-references and innovation, and for reflecting on national identity and cultural categories. Part 3 discusses various ways in which the myth of Ajax, especially in its Sophoclean version, has been translated into theatrical, psychological, and philosophical discussions.

This is not an attempt to look for Ajax’s true nature (an ill-posed question in itself). Nor is it a claim to evaluate Ajax’s features as if they could be placed on a straight evolutionary line (they never can be). On the contrary, the volume provides a multiform and interconnected ensemble of relevant patterns, always particularly situated, and constantly changing.

Zielgruppe

Classical and Reception scholars and students, Theatre studies sc

Autoren/Hrsg.

Speriani, Silvia

Harrison, Stephen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft

Über Autor(innen)

Silvia Speriani, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Manchester, Manchester, UK; Stephen J. Harrison, Professor of Latin Literature at the University of Oxford and Senior Research Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, UK.