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This quote occurs after Neoptolemus admits to Philoctetes that he has been deceiving him, and it again suggests that the Greek army forces men to behave in ways they might otherwise consider immoral. Neoptolemus refers to himself as “base” for agreeing to deceive Philoctetes and steal his bow and arrows, and he is truly ashamed of himself. But Philoctetes suggests that it isn’t Neoptolemus who is bad, but rather the men he is forced to take orders from: Odysseus and Atreus’s sons, Agamemnon and Menelaus, the commanding officers of the Greek army.
Philoctetes refers to Atreus’s sons and Odysseus as…