Sophocles' Philoctetes

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Harry C. Avery, 'Heracles, Philoctetes, Neoptolemus,' Hermes Vol. 93, No. 3 (1965) 279-97.

Elizabeth Belfiore, 'Xenia in Sophocles' Philoctetes,' The Classical Journal, Vol. 89, No. 2 (Dec. 1993 - Jan. 1994) 113-129.

Charles Rowan Beye, 'Sophocles' Philoctetes and the Homeric Embassy,' Transactions of the American Philological Association, Vol. 101 (1970) 63-75.

Penelope Biggs, 'The Disease Theme in Sophocles' Ajax, Philoctetes and Trachiniae,' Classical Philology, Vol. 61, No. 4 (Oct.,1966) 223-235.

Mary Whitlock Blundell, 'The 'Phusis' of Neoptolemus in Sophocles' Philoctetes," Greece & Rome, 2nd Ser. Vol. 35, No. 2 (Oct 1988) 137-48.

Mary Whitlock Blundell, Helping Friends and Harming Enemies: A Study in Sophocles and Greek Ethics (Cambridge: CUP, 1989).

J. F. Davidson, 'The Cave of Philoctetes,' Mnemosyne, 4th Ser., Vol. 43 (1990) 307-315.

Thomas M. Falkner, 'Containing Tragedy: Rhetoric and Self-Representation in Sophocles'Philoctetes,' Classical Antiquity, Vol. 17, No. 1 (Apr. 1998) 25-58.

Christopher Gill, 'Bow, Oracle, and Epiphany in Sophocles' Philoctetes,' Greece & Rome, 2nd Ser., Vol. 27, No. 2 (Oct. 1980) 137-146.

Carola Greengard, Theatre in Crisis. Sophocles' Reconstruction of Genre and Politics inPhiloctetes. Amsterdam: Hakkert, 1987.

Richard Hamilton, 'Neoptolemos' Story in Philoctetes,' American Journal of Philology, Vol. 96, No. 2 (1975) 131-37.

S. J. Harrison, 'Sophocles and the Cult of Philoctetes,' Journal of Hellenic Studies, Vol. 109 (1989) 173-75.

Philip Whaley Harsh, 'The Role of the Bow in the Philoctetes of Sophocles,' American Journal of Philology, Vol. 81, No. 4 (Oct 1960) 408-14.

Bernard Knox, The Heroic Temper: Studies in Sophoclean Tragedy. Berkeley & LA: University of California Press, 1964.

Oscar Mandel, Philoctetes and the Fall of Troy. Plays, Documents, Iconography, Interpretations. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1981.

J. Park Poe, Heroism and divine justice in Sophocles' Philoctetes. Leiden: Brill, 1974.

Deborah H. Roberts, 'Different Stories: Sophoclean Narrative(s) in the Philoctetes,' Transactions of the American Philological Association, Vol. 119 (1989) 161-76.

Charles Segal, Tragedy and Civilization, An Interpretation of Sophocles. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1981, 489-497.

W. B. Stanford, The Ulysses Theme. Oxford: Blackwell, 1954.

J. Ceri Stephens, 'The Wound of Philoctetes,' Mnemosyne 4th Ser., Vol. 48 (Apr. 1995) 153-168.

Pierre Vidal-Naquet, 'Sophocles' Philoctetes and the Ephebeia,' in J.-P. Vernant and P. Vidal-Naquet, Tragedy and Myth in Ancient Greece. trans. Janet Lloyd (Brighton: Harvester, 1981) 175-99.

Mary Whitby, 'Telemachus Transformed? The Origins of Neoptolemus in Sophocles' Philoctetes,'Greece & Rome, 2nd Ser., Vol. 43, No. 1 (Apr. 1996) 31-42.

Edmund Wilson, The Wound and the Bow. New York, 1929.