Auteur(s) : A.J. PODLECKI (Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada)
Titre : Ajax’s Gods and the Gods of Sophocles
Revue : L’Antiquité Classique
Volume : 49
Date : 1980
Pages : 45-86

Abstract:
Divine and semi-divine beings permeate Sophocles’ plays. The whole roster of Olympian deities is frequently named: nameless theoi and daimones are often invoked by his characters; the efficacy of oracles seems to be taken for granted. Of greater significance, however, are the pervasiveness of such pre-Olympian abstractions as Aidos, Tyche, Dike and Eusebeia: all-revealing and all-nurturing Helios; the awesome, but also reconciliatory power of the nether gods.