Ajax

Ajax
by Sophocles.

Scene: (Greek camp outside Troy)

Plot Summary:
One night Ajax is gripped by a psychotic delusion and kills the army's sheep and cows believing them to his hated allies in the Greek army.
The next day he comes to his senses and, despite his wife and half-brother's pleas, he commits suicide in contrition: "Henceforward I shall know to yield to the gods,/And teach myself to respect the Atridae [Menelaus and Agamemnon]".

When his body is found, there ensues a heated argument between Teucer, Ajax's brother, and Agamemnon. Teucer sues for the right to bury Ajax with the proper rites; Agamemnon declares that Ajax should be denied such rites because he tried to kill the Greeks.
In the end Odysseus speaks to Agamemnon as a friend and persuades him to allow the burial to go ahead.

Review:
Antigone has the same kind of plot and is a more interesting play in my opinion.