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1) Philoctetes
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English
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"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...
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Vivid, poetic language, the dramatic power and intensity, the subtleties of meaning, and the explosive emotions of Sophocles' great triology are captured in the Paul Roche translation. Here is an eloquent story of a noble family moving toward catastrophe, dragged down by pride from wealth and power, cursed with incest, suicide, and murder.
Author
Publisher
Floating Press, The
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Oedipus the King is Sophocles' legendary rendition of the myth of the great king Oedipus, perhaps the best known of all of the Greek Tragedies. When an oracle foretells that the young prince Oedipus will grow up to murder his father he is cast out of the kingdom by the king who hopes by doing so that he will avoid his fate. Oedipus grows up and many years later, not knowing his own identity, or the identity of his father, meets him at a crossroad...
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