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Sophocles' Ajax

Warning: This video discusses self harm and animal cruelty If you are considering suicide or another form of self harm, please call the (US) National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255, or visit their website at https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/. In this video I discuss Sophocles' play Ajax and two major ways of reading it. There is a traditional way of seeing the play, which focuses on Ajax's hubris and how he is punished by the gods (specifically Athena) for it. This reading is pretty well aligned with Aristotle's views in the Poetics about tragic plots being driven by the punishment of the hero for excess. The other, more contemporary way of reading the play is as a story about PTSD in a soldier. This reading has become more influential since the beginning of the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, which have produced a new generation of traumatized veterans. There are several theatre practitioners who have tried to find ways of using Greek tragedy to help veterans cope and find ways of processing their experiences. And Ajax is a good vehicle for this because he displays a lot of classic PTSD symptoms. *If you’d like to reference this information or would like to ask me a direct questions for an assignment you are working on, that’s awesome and I am glad to help. Below you will find a model of an MLA citation for this video. Please insert the title, date posted, and url for this specific video. Zapkin, Phillip. “Title.” YouTube, uploaded by TheatreofPhil, date posted, url.