Contents

Dramatis Personæ

Ajax

Dramatis Personæ

Athena.

Odysseus.

Aias.

Chorus of Salaminians.

Tecmessa, concubine of Aias.

Messenger.

Teucer, half-brother of Aias.

Menelaus.

Agamemnon.

NOTE

In translating the choric parts of the play, the aim has been to reproduce as closely as possible the metrical pattern and phrasing of the original, in such a way that one musical setting would fit both the Greek and the English words.