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En route to fight the Trojan War, the Greek army has abandoned Philoctetes, after the smell of his festering wound, mysteriously received from a snakebite at a shrine on a small island off Lemnos, makes it unbearable to keep him on ship. Ten years later, an oracle makes it clear that the war cannot be won without the assistance of Philoctetes and his famous bow, inherited from Hercules himself. Philoctetes focuses on the attempt of Neoptolemus and the hero Odysseus to persuade the bowman to sail with them to Troy. First, though, they must assuage his bitterness over having been abandoned, and then win his trust. But how should t
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
Release date: 18 September 2003
ISBN-10 : 0195136578 | ISBN-13: 9780195136579
Release date: 18 September 2003
ISBN-10 : 0195136578 | ISBN-13: 9780195136579
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