Ajax

Question 1

Aias (Ajax)

Answer 1

is an Ithakan Goatherd. He has taken up with the suitors, giving them choice goats and serving them at dinner, and even aiding them in their fight against Odysseus by throwing arms down. In town the disguised Odysseus is introduced to him with taunts and a kick. During the battle he is tied to the roof, and saved after the maids were dealt with where he received special torture from the goatherd and cowherd

Question 2

Athena

Answer 2

book opens with convo between odysseus and (blank) who is basically Odysseus’s protector. we find out that ajax was going to kill odysseus and other important war people but (blank) instead has kim kill animals

Question 3

Tecmessa

Answer 3

Ajax’ warbride from the Trojan War; pleads for him to consider his wife and child before killing himself; unable to convince him to stay alive and later finds her husband’s body thrown upon his own sword planted in the ground (an obvious suicide); throws her cloak over his dead body and weeps

Question 4

Menelaus

Answer 4

is the King of Sparta and the brother of Agamemnon. He, along with, Odysseus and Agamemnon are the leading generals fighting the Trojans to “reclaim” his wife, Helen. After Ajax loses Achilles’ armour to Odysseus, Ajax plans to kill (blank), Agamemnon and Odysseus. Once proved unsuccessful, Ajax commits suicide and (blank) orders his corpse to not be buried nor to have a funeral.

Question 5

Agamemnon

Answer 5

king of Mycenae. Fighting against Troy. Hated by Ajax, who wants to kill him, but is tricked by Athena into killing sheep/cows instead. After Ajax commits suicide, (blank) and his brother Menelaus believe that he should not be buried. (blank) is later killed by his own wife, Clytemnestra, for sacrificing their daughter in order for victory in Troy. He is portrayed as a selfish and arrogant character in the Ajax, as he holds a grudge against Ajax even after he is dead.

Question 6

Odysseus (ajax)

Answer 6

is the reason for Ajax’s immediate rage due to Menelaus and Agamemnon granting Achilles’ special armor to (blank) when it was originally promised to Ajax himself. Ajax wants to kill (blank) and the other Greek leaders but is stopped by the goddess Athena who tricks him into thinking animals are those he wished to kill. Although (blank) knows that Ajax desperately wants to get revenge and kill him, he is the one who steps in at the end of the book and bargains with the others for a proper burial for Ajax, who took his own life. (blank) believes that even a person’s enemies deserve respect when they die so a proper funeral is given for Ajax, but (blank) is not there out of respect for the dead Ajax.

Question 7

Teucer

Answer 7

is the King of Sparta and the brother of Agamemnon. He, along with, Odysseus and Agamemnon are the leading generals fighting the Trojans to “reclaim” his wife, Helen. After Ajax loses Achilles’ armour to Odysseus, Ajax plans to kill (blank), Agamemnon and Odysseus. Once proved unsuccessful, Ajax commits suicide and (blank) orders his corpse to not be buried nor to have a funeral.