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Личность vs общество: наставления и награды для Аякса и Одиссея
The paper examines the poetic tradition of presenting the dispute between Ajax andOdysseus over Achilles’ armor, reflecting the complexity of the balance betweenpersonal claims and socially significant recognition. In the “Little Iliad”, according tothe retelling of Patriarch Photius and Pseudo-Apollodorus, and also, probably, in thetragedies “Award of the Arms” of Aeschylus and “Telephus” of Euripides, the disputecould be considered as the opposition of words and deeds. The same opposition ispresent in Sophocles’ tragedy “Ajax”, as well as in the poems of Ovid’s poems“Metamorphoses” and Quintus of Smyrna “Posthomerica”. Each of the authorsconsidered presenting an original poetic explanation of the causes and consequences ofthe quarrel between Odysseus and Ajax, focusing on who was instructed in what andwho was rewarded for what.