In the canon
Philoctetes
- Form
- Form Play
- Year
- Year 409 BCE
- Originally in
- Originally in Ancient greek
- Pages
- Pages 80
The search party finds a cave with two mouths, a bed of leaves, a wooden cup some untaught hand has carved, and rags stiff with what has been draining from a wound for ten years. Philoctetes was put ashore on Lemnos because his snakebite had gone septic and his screaming was spoiling the army's sacrifices, and the ships sailed on to Troy without him.
Words and not deeds give mastery over men.
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