Philoctetes
"En route to fight the Trojan War, the Greek army abandons Philoctetes after the smell of his festering wound, mysteriously received from a snakebite at a shrine on a small island off Lemnos, makes it unbearable to keep him on ship. Ten years later, an oracle makes it clear that the war cannot...
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Uniform Title: | Philoctetes. English |
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Main Author: | Sophocles. |
Other Authors: | Phillips, Carl, 1959-, Clay, Diskin. |
Format: | Book |
Language: | English Ancient Greek |
Published: |
New York :
Oxford University Press,
2003.
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Physical Description: |
ix, 118 pages ; 21 cm. |
Series: |
Greek tragedy in new translations.
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Subjects: |
Trojan War
-- Drama.
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