Ajax

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. There is, perhaps, no extant work of Sophocles in which his power over crude material is better displayed than in the Ajax. N 0 other exhibits higher skill in varying a story of few elements; in untwisting rough strands of thought, and leading them into finer threads 3 in relieving the breadth of epic colour ing with new lights and shadows; and this without breaking the contour, without marring the severity, of shapes long held divine.