All events for Ajax and Philoctetes by Sophocles – SOLD OUT

This Great Books class is sold out. Please email human@unc.edu with your First & Last name, and phone number to be added to the waitlist. featuring William H. Race, George L. Paddison Professor of Classics Emeritus   One of the world's greatest poets about Ajax: —In Greek tradition, Ajax figures as the archaic warrior who dies in shame after his betrayal by the Greeks. Sophocles turns tradition inside out, portraying Ajax's suicide not as a disgrace but as heroism. He endows Ajax's suicide…