Aias Mastigophoros: Divine Ostentation within a Play
The paper analyses a short scene that forms part of the opening of Sophocles’ Aias (66–133): Aias, suffering from the madness that was inflicted upon him by Athena, is displayed by the goddess to Odysseus. In the corpus of extant ancient drama, this inset appears to be unique. Its expressive power...
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University of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani)
2019-12-01
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Online Access: | https://journals.uni-lj.si/clotho/article/view/8866 |