103: Sophocles+2: Ajax

In connection with our reading of the Stephanie McCarter's translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses we'll be reading the play Ajax by Sophocles, together with a passage from Homer's Odyssey and a section from the Metamorphoses. For background see here and here.

Readings
1. Socrates's play Ajax (circa 441 BCE) with introduction and translation by John A. Moore (1918-1972) in: Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers (The Complete Greek Tragedies) Paperback – April 19, 2013, Mark Griffith (Editor, Translator), and others.
The Greek text, edited by Francis Storr, is online on the Perseus Hopper at
https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0183
An older translation into English by Richard Jebb is at
https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0184

2. Ovid, Metamorphoses (circa 8 CE), Book 13, Ajax and Ulysses Contend for Achilles’ Armor, lines 1-430 in the McCarter translation.

3. Homer, Odyssey (circa 8th century BC), Book 11, The Dead, "Other dead souls were gathering, all sad; each told the story of his sorrow. Only Ajax kept back, enraged because I won Achilles’ armor, when the case was judged beside the ships. The hero’s mother, Thetis, and sons of Troy, and Pallas, gave the arms to me. I wish I had not won this contest! ... " lines 542-568 of the Emily Wilson translation.