Philoctetes
Introduction + Context
Plot Summary
Detailed Summary & Analysis
Scene 1 (Lines 1 – 134) Entry of the Chorus (Lines 135 – 218) Scene 2 (Lines 219 – 675) Choral Song (Lines 676 – 728) Scene 3 (Lines 730 – 1080) Lament (Lines 1081 – 1218) Scene 4 (Lines 1219 – 1407) Closing Scene (Lines 1408 – 1472)
Themes
All Themes Disability and Discrimination Deception, Ethics, and War Suffering and Isolation Decisions, Obligation, and the Greater Good
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Characters
All Characters Philoctetes Neoptolemus Odysseus Heracles Chorus Merchant/Sailor Achilles Poeas Chryse Atreus’s Sons/The Atridae Diomedes Sisyphus Laertes Helenus Paris
Terms
All Terms The Trojan War
Symbols
All Symbols Philoctetes’s Wound  Philoctetes’s Bow and Arrows
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Philoctetes

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Sophocles
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The Trojan War

The Trojan War is an epic ten-year war fought between the Greeks and the Trojans. It was sparked after Paris, a prince of Troy, ran off with the wife of Menelaus, one of Atreus’s… read analysis of The Trojan War
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