# Loyalty and Betrayal in Ajax

> Theme guide for Ajax by Sophocles.

Ajax feels betrayed by the Greek leaders who award Achilles' arms to Odysseus, while his wife Tecmessa and the Chorus remain loyal to him, and Teucer fiercely defends his brother's right to burial against Menelaus and Agamemnon.

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