Sophocles: Ajax

Performance (Video)

  • Reading and discussion at the Center for Hellenic Studies (2020) [YouTube]

English Translations

  • Taplin (tr.), Sophocles:  Four Tragedies (Oxford, 2015) [Oedipus the King; Aias; Philoctetes; Oedipus at Colonus]
  • Stephen Esposito, Odysseus at Troy: Sophocles’ Ajax and Euripides’ Hecuba and Trojan Women, Translations with introductions, notes, and essays, Focus classical library (Newburyport, MA:  Focus Publishing, 2010) [Review by Spence in BMCR]

Greek Texts and Scholarly Commentaries

  • P. J. Finglass, Sophocles: Ajax, Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries, 48 (Cambridge / New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011) [Review by Mastronarde in BMCR]

Recent Scholarship

  • Glenn W. Most, Leyla Ozbek (ed.), Staging Ajax’s Suicide, Seminari e convegni, 43 (Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, 2015) [Review by Gambon in BMCR]