Sophocles: Philoctetes
- ISBN-10
- 0521862779
- ISBN-13
- 9780521862776
- Series
- Sophocles
- Category
- Drama
- Pages
- 375
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-09-12
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Author
- Sophocles
Description
Accessible edition with commentary of this widely read but highly complex and challenging play. Provides help with morphology, grammar and syntax and interpretation of the text in its historical, social, cultural and intellectual contexts. The introduction also gives an account of its reception from antiquity to the present day.
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