Imagining the hero Ajax in poetry by Pindar and by Pindar’s Homer

This book is about the tragic hero Ajax as portrayed in the lyric poetry of Pindar and in the epic poetry of Homer, who is viewed here as a prehistorical Singer of Tales, mythologized in radically different ways at different times and places in the ancient Greek-speaking world. The book analyzes how the Homeric portrayal of Ajax evolved over time, from earlier, more diverse localized versions to the more familiar Athenocentric version of the “Classical” Homer.