Description: Philoctetes, Paperback by Sophocles; Phillips, Carl (TRN); Clay, Diskin (INT), ISBN 0195136578, ISBN-13 9780195136579, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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 be won without the assistance of Philoctetes and his famous bow, inherited from Hercules himself. Philoctetes focuses on the attempt of Neoptolemus and the hero Odysseus to persuade the bowman to sail with them to Troy. First, though, they must assuage his bitterness over having been abandoned, and then win his trust. But how should they do this - through trickery, or with the truth? To what extent do the ends justify the means? To what degree should personal integrity be compromised for the sake of public duty? These are among the questions that Sophocles puts forward in this, one of his most morally complex and penetrating plays.
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Book Title: Philoctetes
Number of Pages: 128 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Item Height: 0.5 in
Topic: European / General, History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical
Publication Year: 2003
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Drama, Philosophy
Item Weight: 3.9 Oz
Author: Carl Phillips, Sophocles
Item Length: 5.2 in
Item Width: 7.8 in
Book Series: Greek Tragedy in New Translations Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
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