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Amazon.ca: Philoctetes: Search Results All Products Philoctetes by Sophocles (Author) (Paperback - July 25, 1991) Philoctetes by Sophocles (Author) (Paperback - September 2003) The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes by Seamus Heaney (Author) (Paperback - December 1991) www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/external-search?dev-t=D2Y5TUCCVJ7DGE&search-type=ss&index=blended&tag=zeebebecom04-20&keyword=Philoctetes   (270 words)

Island of Freedom - Sophocles Philoctetes and Oedipus at Colonus both deal with exiled, embittered heroes who are ultimately reconciled with society and the gods. The seven extant plays are Antigone, Oedipus Tyrannus or Oedipus Rex (Oedipus the King), Electra, Ajax, Trachiniae (Maidens of Trachis), Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus (produced posthumously in 401 BC). Sophocles' great dramatic achievement was to reinterpret the ancient myths through a fuller development of individual character and to endow surface detail with deeper symbolic significance. www.island-of-freedom.com /SOPHOCLE.HTM   (946 words)

Island of Freedom - Sophocles Philoctetes and Oedipus at Colonus both deal with exiled, embittered heroes who are ultimately reconciled with society and the gods. Sophocles is considered by many modern scholars the greatest of the Greek tragedians and the perfect mean between the titanic symbolism of Aeschylus and the rhetorical realism of Euripides. Sophocles' great dramatic achievement was to reinterpret the ancient myths through a fuller development of individual character and to endow surface detail with deeper symbolic significance. www.island-of-freedom.com /SOPHOCLE.HTM   (946 words)

Philoctetes Philoctetes, produced in 409 bce, is said to be Sophocles' second-to-last play before Oedipus at Colonus, a play to which it bears resemblance. Philoctetes will not relent, and his "final refusal is the refusal of a man so wounded as to be unwilling to resume normal life itself because, with that life, will come new and unpredictable suffering. Philoctetes had received the bow as a reward for lighting Heracles' funeral pyre; a prophecy claims it is needed against Troy now. www.wsu.edu /~delahoyd/philoctetes.html   (490 words)

AllRefer.com - Philoctetes (Folklore And Mythology) - Encyclopedia Sophocles' drama Philoctetes is based on the efforts of Neoptolemus and Odysseus to bring Philoctetes to Troy. On his way to the Trojan War, Philoctetes was bitten by a snake. When an oracle declared that Troy could not be taken without the weapons of Hercules, Philoctetes was brought to Troy by Neoptolemus (or Diomedes) and Odysseus. reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/P/Philocte.html   (213 words)

Notes on Philoctetes Philoctetes' thoughts are set on death, and at the end of his lyric dialogue he goes into his cave to die.. Philoctetes' departure is not easy -it must be made in the right way, and for the right reasons, and to the right destination. Philoctetes did, and was given in return Heracles' famous bow and poisoned arrows, with which Heracles had once taken Troy. www.angelfire.com /art/archictecture/articles/phil.htm   (2434 words)

Philoctetes (from Sophocles) --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust! Philoctetes (from Sophocles) --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust! In Philoctetes (Greek Philoktetes) the Greeks on their way to Troy have cast away the play's main character, Philoctetes, on the desert island of Lemnos because he has a loathsome and incurable ulcer on his foot. Odysseus knows that the resentful Philoctetes will kill him if he can, so he uses the young and impressionable soldier Neoptolemus, son of the dead Achilles, as his agent. www.britannica.com /ebc/article-30147?tocId=30147   (737 words)

Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004.06.16 In his treatment of Philoctetes, Schein notes that while the connections between Philoctetes and the Achilles of the Iliad are clear, the play also suggests connections between Philoctetes and the Odysseus of the Odyssey (specifically Odysseus' time on Calypso's island), thereby again complicating a simple opposition between Odysseus and Philoctetes. In his introduction Schein discusses the fifth-century history of Athens, the context and conditions of the play's original production, the origin of tragedy, the meter and language of Attic tragedy, the Chorus, matters of staging, the life of Sophocles, the general nature of his drama, and finally his reception as a dramatist. Seth Schein's new translation of the Philoctetes will serve as a useful text for upper-year classical literature courses in translation. ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2004/2004-06-16.html   (1263 words)

Amazon.com: The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes: Books: Seamus Heaney Philoctetes (Greek Tragedy in New Translations) by Sophocles Philoctetes bemoans his ill-fated injury which leaves him abandoned and full of vengeance. The tragic story of the forgotten hero, Philoctetes, provides a unique insight into the conflicts between personal moral beliefs and political calling. www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0374133557?v=glance   (1127 words)

Sophocles Bibliography [Seven studies in literature, the last of which is of Sophocles' Philoctetes. Calder III, W.M., "The Protagonist of Sophocles' Antigone," Sorum, C.E., "Monsters and the Family: the Exodos of Sophocles' Trachiniae," GRBS 19 (1978) 59-73. pirate.shu.edu /~cottereu/sophocles_bibliography.htm   (408 words)

Philoctetes of Sophocles Dialogue between Philoctetes, Neoptolemus, Heracles and chorus 1409-1471 Dialogue between Neoptolemus, Philoctetes, Odysseus and chorus 974-1080 department.monm.edu /classics/philoctetes_of_sophocles.htm   (16 words)

Stoa HTML Markup for Philoctetes Note: This translation of Sophocles' Philoctetes was produced by the Adams House Drama Society of Harvard University in 1961, and again, in 1964, by the Group of Ancient Drama at the East River Park Amphitheater in New York City. A slightly revised version was included in Oscar Mandel, ed., Philoctetes and the Fall of Troy, published by the University of Nebraska Press in 1981. PHILOCTETES Child, do not doubt your wish is right and holy. www.stoa.org /markup/soph_phil.shtml   (8379 words)

Bibliography of Articles: Sophocles Philoctetes. Professor Daniel B. Levine. University of Arkansas. Spring, 2005 Sophocles and the Cult of Philoctetes (in Notes) Sophocles' Philoctetes and Odyssey 9: Odysseus vs. the Cave Man. In Euripides' version, Odysseus enters the cave with Philoctetes and accepts modest hospitality, seeing his bow, wound wrappings polluted with the filth and tokens of his malady. www.uark.edu /campus-resources/dlevine/Bibliography.Philoctetes.html   (208 words)

Harvard University Press: Antigone. The Women of Trachis. Philoctetes. Oedipus at Colonus Volume II contains Oedipus at Colonus (the climax of the fallen hero's life), Antigone (a conflict between public authority and an individual woman's conscience), The Women of Trachis (a fatal attempt by Heracles' wife to regain her husband's love), and Philoctetes (Odysseus' intrigue to bring an unwilling hero to the Trojan War). Of his other plays, only fragments remain; but from these much can be learned about Sophocles' language and dramatic art. Volume I contains Oedipus Tyrannus (which tells the famous Oedipus story), Ajax (a heroic tragedy of wounded self-esteem), and Electra (the story of siblings who seek revenge on their mother and her lover for killing their father). www.hup.harvard.edu /catalog/L021.html   (265 words)

Great Books Index - Sophocles -- Discusses four plays by Sophocles: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone and Philoctetes. books.mirror.org /gb.sophocles.html   (310 words)

Philoctetes Study Notes 1) There is a BOND that unites Philoctetes and Neoptolemus throughout the play, in spite of those two characters' differing AGES and other circumstances. How does Sophocles use this to create SYMPATHY between Ph and N? 2) Ph has a serious FLAW which N points out on p. 7) Philoctetes isn't "home," giving N and the chorus an opportunity to speculate about Ph's wretched existence [187] How does Ph support himself? www3.baylor.edu /~John_Nordling/StudyPhiloctetes.html   (970 words)

Island of Freedom - Sophocles The seven extant plays are Antigone, Oedipus Tyrannus or Oedipus Rex (Oedipus the King), Electra, Ajax, Trachiniae (Maidens of Trachis), Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus (produced posthumously in 401 BC). Sophocles' great dramatic achievement was to reinterpret the ancient myths through a fuller development of individual character and to endow surface detail with deeper symbolic significance. Sophocles is considered by many modern scholars the greatest of the Greek tragedians and the perfect mean between the titanic symbolism of Aeschylus and the rhetorical realism of Euripides. www.island-of-freedom.com /SOPHOCLE.HTM   (946 words)

Malaspina Great Books - Sophocles (c. 495 BCE) The Philoctetes is known to have been produced in the year 408 B.C., when Sophocles was 87 years old. The proportion of the lyrics to the level dialogue is considerably less on the average in Sophocles than in Aeschylus, as might be expected from the development of the purely dramatic element, and the consequent subordination of the chorus to the protagonist. As Sophocles has been accused of narrowing the range of tragic' sympathy from Hellas to Athens, it deserves mention here that, of some hundred subjects of plays attributed to him, fifteen only are connected with Attica, while exactly the same number belong to the tale of Argos, twelve are Argonautic, and thirty Trojan. www.malaspina.org /home.asp?topic=./search/details&lastpage=./search/results&ID=84   (6967 words)

Electra The theme of the Electra, which, with the Ajax and Philoctetes, belongs to the Trojan legend, is the same as that of the Mourning Women of Aeschylus, but with a marked difference of treatment. Sophocles, on the other hand, while elaborating the details, represents the whole story in a milder and less terrible form, by concentrating our sympathies on Electra, on her constancy in adhering to her own deep convictions, and on the heroism she displays in suffering. Electra advises her not to regard the commands of her wicked mother, but to offer up at the tomb a prayer for herself and her brother and sister, and for the return of Orestes as the avenger. www.theatrehistory.com /ancient/bates022.html   (1754 words)

Harvard University Press: Ajax. Electra. Oedipus Tyrannus Volume II contains Oedipus at Colonus (the climax of the fallen hero's life), Antigone (a conflict between public authority and an individual woman's conscience), The Women of Trachis (a fatal attempt by Heracles' wife to regain her husband's love), and Philoctetes (Odysseus' intrigue to bring an unwilling hero to the Trojan War). Sophocles (497/6–406 BC), with Aeschylus and Euripides, was one of the three great tragic poets of Athens, and is considered one of the world's greatest poets. Of his other plays, only fragments remain; but from these much can be learned about Sophocles' language and dramatic art. www.hup.harvard.edu /catalog/L020.html   (281 words)

Harvard University Press: Ajax. Electra. Oedipus Tyrannus Volume II contains Oedipus at Colonus (the climax of the fallen hero's life), Antigone (a conflict between public authority and an individual woman's conscience), The Women of Trachis (a fatal attempt by Heracles' wife to regain her husband's love), and Philoctetes (Odysseus' intrigue to bring an unwilling hero to the Trojan War). Sophocles (497/6–406 BC), with Aeschylus and Euripides, was one of the three great tragic poets of Athens, and is considered one of the world's greatest poets. Volume I contains Oedipus Tyrannus (which tells the famous Oedipus story), Ajax (a heroic tragedy of wounded self-esteem), and Electra (the story of siblings who seek revenge on their mother and her lover for killing their father). www.hup.harvard.edu /catalog/L020.html   (281 words)

Riley Collection: Greeks: Sophocles The seven that have survived (Ajax, Antigone, Electra, Oedipus Tyrannus, Oedipus at Colonus, The Women of Trachis, Philoctetes) are an amazing legacy which still possesses vitality and relevance almost 2500 years after their creation. Type I Sophocles wears a fillet about his head and appears older than Type II; there are also differences in the treatment of the eyebrows, beard and hair. This would have been painted while Sophocles was alive, but it is not clear that he actually sat for Polygnotus. www.vroma.org /~riley/sophocles/portrait_cc.html   (610 words)

Sophocles' Ajax note how extraordinary it is that Sophocles here make a hero out of a suicide (!), just as in Philoctetes, he makes a hero out of a deserted and lonely cripple According to others, and this is the version followed by Sophocles, Ajax decides to kill the Greek leaders but goes mad (by the intervention of Athena), and slaughters the flock instead; then in humiliation he kills himself Note esp. that a Hero in Sophocles is not at all necessarily someone you like classics.uc.edu /~johnson/tragedy/ajax.html   (1567 words)

Great Books Index - Sophocles -- Discusses four plays by Sophocles: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone and Philoctetes. books.mirror.org /gb.sophocles.html   (310 words)

Great Books Index - Sophocles -- Discusses four plays by Sophocles: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone and Philoctetes. books.mirror.org /gb.sophocles.html   (310 words)

Abebooks Search Results - Trachiniae Sophocles- Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus (sic), Antigone, Electra, Trachiniae, Ajax, Philoctetes Contains: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus (sic), Antigone, Electra, Trachiniae, Ajax, and Philoctetes. Edition of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, Oedipus Coloneus, Antigone, Trachiniae, Philoctetes, Electra, and Ajax with introduction and list of original readings. awww.abebooks.co.uk /search/sortby/3/kn/Trachiniae   (1141 words)

Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004.06.50 Clay then introduces Dio of Prusa's assessment of the three Philoctetes plays and his characterization of Sophocles as a playwright who is "intermediate" between the extremes of Aeschylus and Euripides. The section entitled "Philoctetes before Philoctetes" takes stock of the little we know of the lost Philoctetes plays by Aeschylus and Euripides and contrasts our relative ignorance of their content with our ability to compare the three tragedians' treatments of the story of Orestes and Electra. Neoptolemos is caught between these two extremes, drawn to each by the conflicting forces of admiration for Philoctetes and duty towards Odysseus. ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2004/2004-06-50.html   (1141 words)

Boston Review Martha Nussbaum: What Greek Tragedy... Sophocles takes great pains to show Philoctetes' suffering as fully human: even when he screams out in unbearable pain, his cry is metrical--a human cry of pain. He cries out in pain himself, with a sharp cry of moral pain (guilt at his deception) that mimics Philoctetes' inarticulate cry of bodily pain. Sympathy for weakness and respect for human agency are allies, because once Neoptolemus understands the magnitude of Philoctetes' suffering, he can no longer regard him as simply a thing to be manipulated, or an animal to be pushed around. bostonreview.mit.edu /BR23.1/nussbaum.html   (1141 words)

Diotima The Women of Trachis and the Philoctetes are probably still, despite Ezra Pound's translation of the one and Edmund Wilson's essay on the other, among the plays of Sophocles least familiar to the modern reader. Kitto's Greek Tragedy (New York, 1954) is sometimes illuminating, often not; his Sophocles: Dramatist and Philosopher (London, 1958) is short and sensible. Waldock's Sophocles the Dramatist (Cambridge, 1951) tries, unconvincingly, to show that Sophocles could write plays, but not think. www.stoa.org /diotima/anthology/soph_int.shtml   (4420 words)

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