Personality vs Society: Instructions and Awards for Ajax and Odysseus
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Personality vs Society: Instructions and Awards for Ajax and Odysseus
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Victoria Pichugina 
Affiliation: Higher School of Economics
Address: Russian Federation, Moscow
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The paper examines the poetic tradition of presenting the dispute between Ajax and Odysseus over Achilles’ armor, reflecting the complexity of the balance between personal claims and socially significant recognition. In the “Little Iliad”, according to the retelling of Patriarch Photius and Pseudo-Apollodorus, and also, probably, in the tragedies “Award of the Arms” of Aeschylus and “Telephus” of Euripides, the dispute could be considered as the opposition of words and deeds. The same opposition is present in Sophocles’ tragedy “Ajax”, as well as in the poems of Ovid’s poems “Metamorphoses” and Quintus of Smyrna “Posthomerica”. Each of the authors considered presenting an original poetic explanation of the causes and consequences of the quarrel between Odysseus and Ajax, focusing on who was instructed in what and who was rewarded for what.

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Achilles’ armor, Ajax, Odysseus, Homer, Aeschylus, Euripides, Sophocles, Ovid, Quintus of Smyrna, personality, society, award, instruction
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