http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/gods Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Fri, 15 May 2026 12:47:00 -0400 Fri, 15 May 2026 12:47:00 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/384/the-relationship-between-gods-and-humans-in-aias-and-the-poetry-of-sapphos By Sujay Kulshrestha - Reading Greek plays provides valuable insight into the relationships between gods and humans. While both gods and humans have fairly similar personalities Greek gods have a certain amount of power that, given motivation from an arrogant mortal, they are all too willing to manipulate for their own entertainment without regard to the consequences for others. In Aias, Sophocles begins by telling the story of Ajax some time after the events in Homer’s Iliad. Over the course of the play, Sophocles relates that Ajax feels slighted, because he was not awarded the now-deceased Achilles’s armor... Wed, 09 Feb 2011 09:14 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/384/the-relationship-between-gods-and-humans-in-aias-and-the-poetry-of-sapphos