The Ajax (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Ajax

There is, perhaps, no extant work of Sophocles in which his power over crude material is better displayed than in the Ajax No other exhibits higher skill in varying a story of few elements; in untwisting rough strands of thought, and leading them into finer threads; in relieving the breadth of epic colour ing with new lights and shadows; and this without breaking the contour, without marring the severity, of shapes long held divine.

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