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Archaeologists said this week they have found a 3,500-year-old palace that once belonged to Ajax, an ancient Greek king who was one of the great heroes of the Trojan War. Archaeologist Yannos ...
Greek archaeologists say they have unearthed the remains of a 13th Century BC palace linked to the legendary warrior-king Ajax. In Homer's classic tale The Iliad the Achaean hero Ajax the Great fought ...
In "The Iliad," Ajax fights in the Trojan War alongside his cousin, Achilles. Ajax later took his own life with the sword of the fallen Trojan prince, Hector, and so died "unconquered." ...
AJAX and LITTLE ILIAD created and performed by Evan Webber and Frank Cox-O’Connell (World Stage/Harbourfront Centre). At the Enwave Theatre (231 Queens Quay West). Opens Wednesday (April 4) 8 pm ...
Ajax, Little Iliad Peacock Theatre HHHH. Just as Thucydides's account of the Peloponnesian War remains a standard text in political philosophy, Sophocles's dramas identify lingering connections ...
Of the seven surviving tragedies of Sophocles, two deal with the Trojan War: Ajax, one of his earliest plays, and Philoctetes, one of his last. Both are newly perti… ...