![scene from Ajax](https://www.yorku.ca/laps/vcp/wp-content/uploads/sites/416/2023/11/ajax-1.png)
Athena explains Ajax's madness to Odysseus.
![scene from Ajax](https://www.yorku.ca/laps/vcp/wp-content/uploads/sites/416/2023/11/ajax-2.png)
Ajax tortures cattle, thinking they are men and is accused by the chorus.
![scene from Ajax](https://www.yorku.ca/laps/vcp/wp-content/uploads/sites/416/2023/11/ajax-3.png)
Tecmessa recounts Ajax slaughtering livestock.
![scene from Ajax](https://www.yorku.ca/laps/vcp/wp-content/uploads/sites/416/2023/11/ajax-4.png)
Ajax regains his senses and is disgusted by his crimes
![scene from Ajax](https://www.yorku.ca/laps/vcp/wp-content/uploads/sites/416/2023/11/ajax-5.png)
Tecmessa and the leader try to calm Ajax down.
![scene from Ajax](https://www.yorku.ca/laps/vcp/wp-content/uploads/sites/416/2023/11/ajax-6.png)
Ajax leaves his tent.
![scene from Ajax](https://www.yorku.ca/laps/vcp/wp-content/uploads/sites/416/2023/11/ajax-7.png)
Teucros’s man warns of Ajax’s fate if he leaves his tent.
![scene from Ajax](https://www.yorku.ca/laps/vcp/wp-content/uploads/sites/416/2023/11/ajax-8.png)
A search begins for Ajax.
![scene from Ajax](https://www.yorku.ca/laps/vcp/wp-content/uploads/sites/416/2023/11/ajax-9.png)
Ajax commits suicide by stabbing himself with his sword.
![scene from Ajax](https://www.yorku.ca/laps/vcp/wp-content/uploads/sites/416/2023/11/ajax-10.png)
Ajax’s close ones mourn him
![scene from Ajax](https://www.yorku.ca/laps/vcp/wp-content/uploads/sites/416/2023/11/ajax-11.png)
Menelaus and Agamemnon proclaims that Ajax's body should be left for the birds.
![scene from Ajax](https://www.yorku.ca/laps/vcp/wp-content/uploads/sites/416/2023/11/ajax-12.png)
![scene from Ajax](https://www.yorku.ca/laps/vcp/wp-content/uploads/sites/416/2023/11/ajax-13.png)
Odysseus argues that Ajax should be honored.
![scene from Ajax](https://www.yorku.ca/laps/vcp/wp-content/uploads/sites/416/2023/11/ajax-14.png)
Ajax is to be buried as a hero.