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How do British classicists pronounce the word Philoctetes?
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"Philoctetes" was the text in my fifth-quarter Classical Greek class at the University of Utah.
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Sophocles '"Philoctetes", from the point of view of composition the most modern of the classical dramas.
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[797] Fragments from the "Philoctetes" of Euripides.
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Sophocles; and yet Pater declares that the "Philoctetes" of Sophocles, if issued to-day, would be called romantic.
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"Philoctetes," Sophocles introduces, as an element of tragedy, physical pain, though it is combined with moral suffering.
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Whatever will excite interest in a healthy, vigorous mind, that is a fair object of poetry, and there is a painful as well as a pleasant interest; it is an abuse of language to describe the sensations which we experience on reading "Philoctetes" or "Hamlet" as pleasant.
Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc
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The "Philoctetes" has always been ranked by critics among the most elaborate and polished of the tragedies of Sophocles.
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As Heaney wrote in his play, "The Cure at Troy," based on Sophocles '"Philoctetes":
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The Cure at Troy, "based on Sophocles '" Philoctetes ":" History says, Don't hope on this side of the grave.
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March 13, 2011