Images of Ajax

I'm adding these pictures into my reasearch because i dont feel they necessarily go with any research that i've stumbled upon but I get this feeling that they really belong with the play and can help people get into the play and help them understand maybe a little more of what this world of madness is suppose to be like.
1.) Random greek painting of Ajax

2.)Death of Ajax, 1820 Serrur
















3.)Theatre of Dionysus, where it has been said the first performace of Sophocles' Ajax was performed.

4.)Statue of Sophocles' head

Inspirational videos

Here's a few videos I've found of different Theatre groups with Ajax some really interesting staging ideas as well as costume and scenery.I tried embeding them like my other video but for some reason these ones are just showing up as the whole HTML code and not the actual video so you can watch it on here... but the links are posted so you can copy and paste them and you can see what I am looking at and what nots.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BibJonn3Y3E&feature=player_embedded

I particularly like this video because not only does it show some neat staging and costuming, but it looks into the stands alittle and kinda shows you what and where the audience is sitting, it also shows you it's outside. possibility when putting Ajax on to give the audience a  more realistic feel that what is going on in front of them might actually be real?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0o0D-qNkeDQ&feature=player_embedded

I really like the costuming ideas and music for this video though I really could use a German translator to know what part of the play they are doing when they actually talk in the video to kinda see if this might be an interesting turn of scenery from the traditional greek stage setting.

Classical Greek theatre: New views of an old subject

Clifford Ashby, goes into depth about the Greek Theatre and how we can only take what we know or think we know and really make it something of our own. in Chapter 2 "the limits of eviendce; Physical remains" he talks about how even though we have dug up ancient theatres those theatres were altered by late greeks and early roman rulers. so we could never truly know what was what, and what belonged to who. but Ashby, I feel, encourages us to really grasp what we have seen and take the essence with us and really dig deep and get our fingernails dirty, trying to recreate whatever it is that our minds set us to do with these things.

Biboliography:
University of Iowa Press 1999 "Classical Greek theatre: New views of an old subject", Clifford Ashby

This is my Monograph source.

what's a Monograph?

 I'd like to educate the public reader on what a monograph is, because in "The Information- Literate Historian" by: Jenny L. Presnell, she doesn't quiet give a clear example I felt that she took what she wrote for primary document and put it where monograph was as well... Monograph's can all be primary documents but not all primary documents can be monographs, here's 4 easy things to look for when looking for a MONOGRAPH:

• One-volume work
• Gives in-depth treatment to a specialized subject
• Written by a scholar in the field
•       Usually published by a university and not a normal publishing company
• Written mainly for an academic audience
•        They will ALWAYS have an intense Bibliography. 

Bibliography:
http://www.library.illinois.edu/learn/tutorials/monograph.html

Sophocles' Ajax as staged by the English Theatre

There have been multiple showings in the English theatre dating far back in history. surprisingly they were NEVER a success, either due to being banned for being too out there, or just the means of no one being interested. Though Ajax really does allow us to see into what anger is, and really gives us a true experience to watch it play out.

Though in 1605 Inigo Jones, a famous theatre architect, put together a performance of Ajax for the King and Queen, and it did well, though the Queen cried to be faint at some point, it was still a success, had it something to do with working with greek translation into modern language, the scene, or even the costumes? it is un clear but what was clear is that something he did worked and he did it well.

I believe studying into Inigo Jones would be quiet profiecent in my studies of Ajax as it seems that his rendition of the play seemed to work so well.

Biboliography:
By: Sarah Knight
"‘Goodlie anticke apparrell’?:
Sophocles’ Ajax at Early Modern
Oxford and Cambridge"
57. Sophocles, A ας, 46–47.
58. G. Zanker, ‘‘Sophocles’ Ajax and the Heroic Values of the Iliad,’’ Classical
Quarterly, n.s., 42, no. 1 (1992): 20–25. (20, 21).

Sophocles- Musician and Dancer

Sophocles wasn't just a writer he was also every good in other art forms as well, mostly in dance and music. He studied under Lamprus.

( who was married to Galateia,and according to Greek Mythology he ordered her to kill any child she bared that wasn't a son... go to find out she had a girl and hid it from her husband... but as all the stories go he eventually found out, threatened to kill the child, but the gods helped hide the child and they all lived happily ever after, or in Greek times lived happily ever until someone else wrote another story with them in it. :) )

But Sophocles danced to the sound of his own Lyre ( a 4 stringed musical instrument), either naked or with just a cloak on. apparently he even played a little ball game quiet well too. Sophocles was a true well rounded individual.

Biboliography:
Excerpt found in Source Book in Theatrical History page 7 section 4. Excerpt from Athenaeus' Deipnosophistai  establishes Sophocles' (ca 495 B.C.-- 406 B.C.) proficiency in both arts.

http://www.mythindex.com/greek-mythology/G/Galateia.html