Ajax

2000 years before a London playwright by the name of William Shakespeare began honing the world’s most famous plays, the Ancient Greeks were creating the art form. Right in the thick of it was Sophocles, who along with Aeschylus and Euripides form the great trinity of Greek playwrights.

While there were certainly other Greek playwrights, it is the works of these three that have survived, and Sophocles is often regarded as the best of them, as he was back then. The Suda, a Middle Ages encyclo...