Sophocle searches the silences and ambiguities of the homeric text to construct the portrait of a man who is a victim of the gods, but also of himself and of a world where he no longer has his place, that of the classical city: in his rage for having been frustrated with Achilles' weapons for the benefit of Ulysses, Ajax decides to massacre the leaders The Greeks whom he accuses of deception, but the madness sent by Athena diverts his hand to the cattle of the army; returned to him, surrounded by his own, but basically alone like most of the great Sophoclean heroes, he commits suicide by throwing himself on his sword fixed on the ground. Ajax, or how the tragic scene transforms one of the greats of the Iliad into a lost, suffering character, dedicated to a death without glory in the name of the very values that made his glory. If the tragedy of Sophocle gains to be rooted in the historicality of Greek representations, Ajax's melancholic madness and the echoes it evokes take place in a very long time that encompasses our present.