Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends

Philoktetes

by 496? BCE-407 BCE Sophocles, Gregory McNamee (Translator) & Gergely Csiky (Translator)

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Languages: English, Hungarian

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"Philoktetes" by Sophocles is a tragedy first performed in 409 BC. The play unfolds during the final year of the Trojan War, when the Greeks learn they need the master archer Philoctetes and his legendary bow to win. Abandoned on a desolate island years earlier after a snake bite, Philoctetes bitterly hates those who left him. Now Odysseus and young Neoptolemus must retrieve him through deception, forcing questions about honor, duty, and the conflict between individual suffering and collective need. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Project Gutenberg electronic edition Project Gutenberg metadata does not identify the source print edition.	2020-02-23	Project Gutenberg	Hungarian	—	Public domain (USA)	Project Gutenberg (opens in a new tab)
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