syllable, -tet-) is a play by Sophocles (Aeschylus and Euripides also each wrote a Philoctetes but theirs have not survived). The play was written during the...
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Ēlektra), is a Greek tragedy by Sophocles. Its date is not known, but various stylistic similarities with the Philoctetes (409 BC) and the Oedipus at Colonus...
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plays, Sophocles' Philoctetes is the only one that has survived. Sophocles' Philoctetes at Troy, Aeschylus' Philoctetes and Euripides' Philoctetes have...
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be the second oldest surviving play of Sophocles, preceded by Ajax, which was written around the same period. The play is one of a triad of tragedies...
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Plays of Sophocles: A New Translation. By Sophocles. New York: Harper. ISBN 978-0062020345. Buckley, Theodore Alois. 1849. The Tragedies of Sophocles...
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by Dio Chrysostom of Euripides' Philoctetes with Aeschylus' Philoctetes (probably 470s BCE) and Sophocles' Philoctetes (409 BCE). In addition, portions...
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by Sophocles; Euripides won four. The most famous tragedies of Sophocles feature Oedipus and Antigone: they are generally known as the Theban plays, though...
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Chrysostom of the Aeschylus' Philoctetes with Euripides' Philoctetes (431 BCE) and Sophocles' Philoctetes (409 BCE). Philoctetes is mentioned briefly in Homer's...
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to Julian. University of California. p. 269. Austin, N. (2011). Sophocles' Philoctetes and the Great Soul Robbery. University of Wisconsin Press. p. 25...
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The Cure at Troy (category Plays based on works by Sophocles)
The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes is a verse adaptation by Seamus Heaney of Sophocles' play Philoctetes. It was first published in 1991...
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Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, and the Roman adaptations of Plautus, Terence and Seneca. In total, there are eighty-three mostly extant plays, forty-six...
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competition that year was extraordinarily keen"; Sophocles, often winning first prize, came second. The play was initially rediscovered with Rome's Augustan...
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the wound was festering and smelled bad. Philoctetes's retrieval is the plot of Philoctetes, a play by Sophocles. Some sources portray Neoptolemus as brutal...
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of political alliances ostensibly achieved by Alcibiades". Like Sophocles' Philoctetes, Euripides' Cyclops made an appeal on behalf of Alcibiades that...
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Oedipus Rex (redirect from Oedipus Rex (play))
text related to this article: Philoctetes Oedipus Tyrannus at Perseus Digital Library Aristotle's Poetics: Notes on Sophocles' Oedipus Archived 2018-09-30...
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1958: Blood Wedding 1958: Curtains Up 1959: Philoctetes (Andre Gide play) 1959: Philoctetes (Sophocles play) 1959: Sweet Confession 1959: I Rise in Flame...
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Philo the Dialectician Philochorus Philocles Philoctetes Philoctetes (Euripides play) Philoctetes (Sophocles play) Philodemus (mythology) Philodice Philoetius...
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version at the Perseus Digital Library. Sophocles, Sophocles. Vol 2: Ajax. Electra. Trachiniae. Philoctetes with an English translation by F. Storr....
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before returning triumphantly to Carthage with the spoils of war. Sophocles' play Philoctetes is performed, with the theme of the Trojan War. Pleistoanax,...
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wrote the play he was "full of my readings of the ancient authors [...] I knew very little of the theater in Paris." In adapting Sophocles' Athenian tragedy...
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appeared in Paradise, Kae Tempest's new all-female version of Sophocles' play Philoctetes, Postponed from 2020, it was directed by Ian Rickson with Lesley...
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centrally or indirectly in a number of the extant plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles (Ajax, Philoctetes) and Euripides (Hecuba, Rhesus, Cyclops) and figured...
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"integrated into the fabric of the play" and more resembles a unified character. Since Euripides' choruses seem less unified, Sophocles' choruses more often received...
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Greek tragedy (section The reforms of Sophocles)
Aristophanes of Byzantium, Sophocles wrote 130 plays, 17 of which are spurious; the Suda lexicon counted 123. Of all Sophocles's tragedies, only seven remain...
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Trojan War (section Philoctetes)
Philoctetes – but Sophocles, Philoctetes says Odysseus and Neoptolemus, while Proclus, Chrestomathy 3, Little Iliad says Diomedes alone. Philoctetes was...
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The Suppliants (Aeschylus) (category Plays by Aeschylus)
things in all Greek poetry." Greek tragedies—The Suppliants and Sophocles' Philoctetes, for example—do not always end with the downfall of the protagonist...
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Euripides (section Extant plays)
classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three ancient Greek tragedians for whom any plays have survived in full. Some ancient...
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Aphareus (4th century BC) Asklepios** Akhilleus** Tantalos** Sophocles (c. 495–406 BC): Theban plays, or Oedipus cycle: Antigone (c. 442 BC) Oedipus Rex (c...
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other Greeks. This scenario draws on source material from Sophocles' Philoctetes. Philoctetes is rescued from his cave. They tell him that his wound can...
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version at the Perseus Digital Library. Sophocles, Sophocles. Vol 2: Ajax. Electra. Trachiniae. Philoctetes with an English translation by F. Storr....
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