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The greatest Greek warrior after his cousin Achilles, Ajax is a tall, blond, and rather unintelligent man who has a young son by his Trojan enslaved woman Tecmessa, who claims to have fallen in love with him. He suffers from violent nightmares and strange emotional outbursts after nine years of war at Troy. When Agamemnon attempts to bribe Achilles to return to battle, Ajax goes with Odysseus to relay Agamemnon’s offer to Achilles. After Achilles refuses the offer, Ajax angrily accuses him of not caring about dying Greek soldiers and says he’s ashamed to be Achilles’s cousin and friend—an outburst that stings Achilles, though Achilles pretends it doesn’t.
Ajax Quotes in The Silence of the Girls
The The Silence of the Girls quotes below are all either spoken by Ajax or refer to Ajax. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 6
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“It’s not his fault,” she said. “He has these awful nightmares, sometimes he wakes up, he thinks I’m a Trojan.”
“You are a Trojan,” I said.
“No, I mean a fighter,” Tecmessa said.
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Chapter 45
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We’re going to survive—our songs, our stories. They’ll never be able to forget us. Decades after the last man who fought at Troy is dead, their sons will remember the songs their Trojan mothers sang to them.
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Ajax Quotes in The Silence of the Girls
The The Silence of the Girls quotes below are all either spoken by Ajax or refer to Ajax. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 6
Quotes
“It’s not his fault,” she said. “He has these awful nightmares, sometimes he wakes up, he thinks I’m a Trojan.”
“You are a Trojan,” I said.
“No, I mean a fighter,” Tecmessa said.
Related Characters:
Page Number and Citation:
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 45
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We’re going to survive—our songs, our stories. They’ll never be able to forget us. Decades after the last man who fought at Troy is dead, their sons will remember the songs their Trojan mothers sang to them.
