Chapter 4 Sophocles’ Ajax: The Necropolitical Treatment of the Hero’s Life and Death

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Ancient Necropolitics

Maltreating the Living, Abusing the Dead in Greek Antiquity

Series:  Mnemosyne, Supplements, Volume: 492
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