The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes
- ISBN-10
- 0374522898
- ISBN-13
- 9780374522896
- Category
- Drama
- Pages
- 81
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1991-12-04
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Author
- Seamus Heaney
Description
The Irish poet offers his adaptation of Sophocles' tale of Philoctetes who is marooned by the Greeks on their way to Troy
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- 2014-01-28
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