Philoctetes

By Sophocles

Book Id: WPLBN0002951666
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File Size: 41.20 MB
Reproduction Date: 2012

Title:	Philoctetes
Author:	Sophocles
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Dramatic Works, Play, Tragedy
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Philoctetes
Historic Publication Date:	1883
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Sophocles, B. (1883). Philoctetes. Retrieved from http://www.self.gutenberg.org/

Description
Sophocles' play recounts an episode from the Trojan War, in which the wily Odysseus and Achilles' son Neoptolemus travel to a remote island to persuade Philoctetes to come with them to Troy. A prophet has foreseen that the Greeks will need Philoctetes and his bow (given to him by Heracles before his death) in order to defeat the Trojans. The problem is that years before Odysseus had engineered Philoctetes' abandonment on the island, due to a festering, stinking wound he had received from a snakebite. Will Philoctetes forgive and forget, or will he take his revenge? (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)

Summary
Electronic recorded live performance of a reading

Excerpt
Play, Tragedy