Sophocles Philoctetes

by Roisman, Hanna M.; Harrison, Tom

• ISBN13: 9780715633847
• ISBN10: 0715633848
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-08-25
• Publisher: Bristol Classical Press

Summary

Philoctetes is an extraordinarily timely and timeless play. Dramatising the efforts of those who had wronged him to bring the play's hero, Philoctetes, to join the Greek forces in their war against Troy, it traces the moral and emotional development of the young Neoptolemos as he struggles between the values of honesty and deceit, honour and expedience. Hanna Roisman's accessible companion makes Sophocles' great play enjoyable and meaningful to modern readers who want to know more about the world of classical Greek tragedy.

Author Biography

Hannah M. Roisman is Professor of Classics and Chair of the Department at Colby College, Maine.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 7
Theatre and Performance	p. 9
The Myth	p. 24
The Play	p. 41
The Contexts	p. 57
Odysseus and Philoctetes	p. 72
Neoptolemus	p. 88
Heracles	p. 106
Philoctetes in Our Time	p. 112
Notes	p. 127
Guide to Further Reading	p. 139
Bibliography	p. 143
Glossary	p. 152
Chronology	p. 153
Index	p. 154
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