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
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Disability and Discrimination
Deception, Ethics, and War
Suffering and Isolation
Decisions, Obligation, and the Greater Good
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Philoctetes
Neoptolemus
Odysseus
Heracles
Chorus
Merchant/Sailor
Achilles
Poeas
Chryse
Atreus’s Sons/The Atridae
Diomedes
Sisyphus
Laertes
Helenus
Paris
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The Trojan War
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Philoctetes’s Wound
Philoctetes’s Bow and Arrows
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Introduction
Intro
Plot Summary
Plot
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
Quotes
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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