When Odysseus arrives on Lemnos, he ascertains first that Philoctetes is still alive, and second that he is and has been totally isolated. ...

This fragment (400b) from Aeschylus' Philoctetes makes me wish we had the whole play: “Where the wind allows you neither to ...

In some ways, a play like Sophocles' Philoctetes is more than a rendering of a single story evoked from the tapestry of Greek myth. In ...

WHEN PHILOCTETES IN THE LEMNIAN ISLE WHEN Philoctetes in the Lemnian isle Like a form sculptured on a monument Lay couched; on him or ...

Sometimes looking at a work from another angle brings a renewed appreciation for something one thought had already been sufficiently savore...

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