Looking at Ajax

[A] fresh and insightful take on some very well-trodden themes in the play. Overall, Looking at Ajax presents a detailed introduction to Sophocles' play that will benefit students and scholars alike. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *

David Stuttard is a classicist and historian, who has directed his own translations and adaptations of Greek drama throughout the UK and in classical theatres in Turkey and Albania. He is the founder of the theatre company Actors of Dionysus and has edited four 'Looking at' volumes for Bloomsbury: Antigone (2017), Bacchae (2016), Medea (2014) and Lysistrata (2010).

Introduction - Ajax, Bulwark of the Greeks (David Stuttard) 1. Some Visual Influences on Sophocles' Ajax? (David Stuttard) 2. Ajax the Hero (Dr Laura Swift, Senior Lecturer in Classics, The Open University) 3. Shield of the Achaeans (Professor Sophie Mills, Professor of Classics, University of North Carolina at Asheville) 4. The Power of Ajax's Sword (Dr Rosie Wyles, Lecturer in Classical History & Literature, University of Kent) 5. The Sounds of Ajax's Grief (Alyson Melzer, PhD Candidate in Classics, Stanford University) 6. Ajax's Suicide (Professor Robert Garland, Roy D. and Margaret B. Wooster Professor of the Classics, Colgate University, New York) 7. Looking at the Isolation of Ajax (Professor Richard Seaford, Emeritus Professor of Ancient Greek, University of Exeter) 8. Tecmessa (Professor Hanna M. Roisman, Professor of Classics, Arnold Bernhard Professor in Arts and Humanities, Colby College, Maine) 9. A Grief Observed: Tecmessa and her Sadness - Work in Sophocles Ajax (Professor Stephen Esposito, Associate Professor of Classical Studies, Boston University) 10. Heroic Values and Lesser Mortals (Carmel McCallum-Barry, formerly Lecturer in Classics, University College, Cork) 11. Odysseus and Empathy (Professor Brad Levett, Associate Professor of Classics, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's Newfoundland) 12. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and the Performance Reception of Sophocles' Ajax (Dr Emma Cole, Lecturer in Classics and Liberal Arts, University of Bristol) Translation of Sophocles' Ajax by David Stuttard Bibliography Index