TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sophocles
AU  - Csiky,Gergely
TI  - Philoktetes
AV  - PA 
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Tragedies (Drama)
KW  - Trojan War -- Drama
KW  - Philoctetes (Mythological character) -- Drama
N1  - 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
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N2  - "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.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61493
ER  -