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.