Φιλοκτήτης

Philoctetes

AuthorSophocles

LanguageClassical Attic Greek

Year409 BCE

CountryClassical Athens

GenreDrama / Theatre / Plays

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Philoctetes is a play by Sophocles. The play was written during the Peloponnesian War. It is one of the seven extant tragedies by Sophocles. It was first performed at the City Dionysia in 409 BC, where it won first prize. The story takes place during the last year of the Trojan War. It describes the attempt by Neoptolemus, son of Achilles, and Odysseus, king of Ithaca, to bring the disabled Philoctetes, the master archer, from the island of Lemnos to Troy in the hopes that he and his bow might help end the Trojan War.— Wikipedia