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Sophocles, Philoctetes 1140-5

✍ Scribed by J. H. Kells


Book ID
118055583
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1963
Tongue
English
Weight
465 KB
Volume
13
Category
Article
ISSN
0009-840X

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Seamus Heaney's version of Sophocles's _Philoctetes_ tells of the wounded hero marooned upon an island by the Greeks during the Siege of Troy. As the conflict comes to a climax, the Greeks begin to realise they cannot win the Trojan war without Philoctetes's invincible bow, and turn back to seek his