The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN-13:9780374522896ISBN-10:374522898UPC:9780374522896Book Category:DramaBook Subcategory:Ancient & Classical, EuropeanBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:8.00 x 5.40 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.2006Product ID:SCSCWXKKAQ
The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes
The Cure at Troy is Seamus Heaney's version of Sophocles' Philoctetes. Written in the fifth century BC, this play concerns the predicament of the outcast hero, Philoctetes, whom the Greeks marooned on the island of Lemnos and forgot about until the closing stages of the Siege of Troy. Abandoned because of a wounded foot, Philoctetes nevertheless possesses an invincible bow without which the...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN-13:9780374522896ISBN-10:374522898UPC:9780374522896Book Category:DramaBook Subcategory:Ancient & Classical, EuropeanBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:8.00 x 5.40 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.2006Product ID:SCSCWXKKAQ
Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. His poems, plays, translations, and essays include Opened Ground, Electric Light, Beowulf, The Spirit Level, District and Circle, and Finders Keepers. Robert Lowell praised Heaney as the most important Irish poet since Yeats.
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