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Author: Sophocles
Edition: 2nd
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0521862779

Sophocles: Philoctetes (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)

Sophocles' Philoctetes is one of the most widely read Greek tragedies today but is a complex and challenging play to interpret. Get Sophocles literature books for free.
Its representation of Philoctetes as a sufferer of physical and emotional pain gives it remarkable power and intensity. It juxtaposes Homeric and fifth-century institutions and values, explores honor, power and expediency as principles of personal and political life, and represents contrasts and conflicts between innocence and experience, ends and means, and the needs and demands of the individual and those of society. This edition with commentary makes the play accessible to students, teachers, and other readers of Greek literature at all levels. The introduction discusses the main problems of interpretation and gives Check Sophocles our best literature books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.

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