Ajax

This book is about the tragic hero Ajax as portrayed in the lyric poetry of Pindar and in the epic poetry of Homer, who is viewed here as a prehistorical Singer of Tales, mythologized in radically different ways at different times and places in the ancient Greek-speaking world. The book analyses how the Homeric portrayal of Ajax evolved over time, from earlier, more diverse localised versions to the more familiar Athenocentric version of the "Classical" Homer.