Philoktetes
Sophocles, 496? BCE-407 BCE
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"Philoktetes" by Sophocles is a tragedy performed in Athens in 409 BCE. The play tells the story of the Greek hero Philoctetes, abandoned on the island of Lemnos for ten years due to a festering wound. When the Greeks learn they cannot conquer Troy without Heracles' bow and arrows—now possessed by Philoctetes—Odysseus and young Neoptolemus must retrieve them. What follows is a moral dilemma between heroic virtue and political necessity, as deception clashes with honor on a desolate shore. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Tragedies (Drama) Trojan War -- Drama Philoctetes (Mythological character) -- Drama
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Philoktetes - 1 online resource : multiple file formats
Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philoctetes_(Sophocles_play) Wikipedia page about this book: https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philoctetes_(Sophocles) Release date is 2020-02-23
Produced by Albert László from page images generously made
available by the Google Books Library Project Produced by Albert László from page images generously made
available by the Google Books Library Project
"Philoktetes" by Sophocles is a tragedy performed in Athens in 409 BCE. The play tells the story of the Greek hero Philoctetes, abandoned on the island of Lemnos for ten years due to a festering wound. When the Greeks learn they cannot conquer Troy without Heracles' bow and arrows—now possessed by Philoctetes—Odysseus and young Neoptolemus must retrieve them. What follows is a moral dilemma between heroic virtue and political necessity, as deception clashes with honor on a desolate shore. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Tragedies (Drama) Trojan War -- Drama Philoctetes (Mythological character) -- Drama
PA