Philoctetes by Sophocles

Philoctetes is a play by Sophocles (Aeschylus and Euripides also each wrote a Philoctetes but theirs have not survived). It was first performed at the Festival of Dionysus in 409 BC, where it won first prize. The story takes place during the Trojan War (after the events of the Iliad, and before the Trojan Horse). It describes the attempt by Neoptolemus and Odysseus to bring the disabled Philoctetes with them to Troy.

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	Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus. Oedipus Colonus. Antigone.-v. 2. Philoctetes. Electra. Trachiniae. Ajax	Paperback	1646025	$24.95		2018
	Philoctetes	Kindle Edition	1219138	$6.15		2009
	Philoctetes	Kindle Edition	597447	$2.99		2010
	Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers (The Complete Greek Tragedies)	Kindle Edition	241266	$8.45		2013
	Philoctetes	Paperback	1398064	$6.95		2021
	Sophocles, Vol. 4: The Plays and Fragments; The Philoctetes (Classic Reprint)	Paperback	1465831	$11.31		2017
	The Philoctetes of Sophocles, with a commentary abridged from the larger ed. of Richard C. Jebb by E.S. Shuckburgh (Ancient Greek Edition)	Paperback	568327	$4.06		1906
	Philoctetes	Paperback	3485029	$7.50	$28.20
	Philoktetes: A Classic Greek Play (Philoctetes)	Paperback	1744612	$9.95		2013
	Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers (The Complete Greek Tragedies)	Hardcover	2145181	$38.00	$25.00	2013
	Sophocles: Electra, Antigone, Philoctetes (Translations from Greek and Roman Authors)	Paperback	639754	$57.48	$3.00	1979
	Philoctetes (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)	Kindle Edition	80931			2015
	Philoctetes	Kindle Edition	250796			2016
	Sophocles: Philoctetes (Classical Texts Series)	Paperback	4654268	$24.26	$54.55	2001
	Sophocles, Volume II. Antigone. The Women of Trachis. Philoctetes. Oedipus at Colonus (Loeb Classical Library No. 21)	Hardcover	859212	$22.03	$15.01	1994
	Sophocles: Philoctetes (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics) (Greek Edition)	Paperback	3778648	$29.98	$4.25	1974
	Sophocles: Philoctetes (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics) (Greek Edition)	Hardcover	5852848	$217.10	$12.48	1970
	Philoctetes (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)	Kindle Edition	1753710			2003
	Philoctetes [Translated] (With Active Table of Contents)	Kindle Edition	344762			2011
	Philoctetes (Dodo Press)	Paperback	5429302	$8.96		2010
	Sophocles Philoctetes (Bryn Mawr Greek commentaries)	Plastic Comb	1779775	$13.29	$9.54	1997
	Philoctète , tragédie traduite du grec de Sophocle, en 3 actes et en vers, (Éd.1781) (Litterature) (French Edition)	Paperback	1800932	$14.95		2018
	3: Tragédies: Tome III : Philoctète - Oedipe à Colone. (Collection Des Universites De France) (French and Greek Edition)	Paperback	2137432	$44.00	$20.00	2009
	Four Tragedies: Ajax, Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes (Hackett Classics)	Hardcover	708791	$35.00	$42.46	2007
	Philoctetes (Hackett Classics)	Kindle Edition	1071603	$6.71		2014
	Philoctetes	Paperback	1411177	$8.95	$7.95	2009
	The Philoctetes of Sophocles. Translated from the Greek	Hardcover	3095833	$21.95		2018
	Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers (The Complete Greek Tragedies) Paperback April 19, 2013	Paperback	1546832	$20.70	$8.46
	Sophocles: Sophocles II : Ajax/The Women of Trachis/Electra/Philoctetes/The Trackers (Paperback); 2013 Edition	Paperback	1982858	$70.00
	Four Tragedies: Ajax, Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes (Paperback) - Common	Paperback	771263	$16.48	$15.00
	Sophocles Classics: Philoctetes	Paperback	2115338	$5.99		2019
	Philoctetes (Absolute Classics)	Paperback	5639412	$8.05	$2.51	1999
	Sophocles II: Ajax; Trans. By David Grene. the Women of Trachis; Trans. By Michael Jameson. Electra; Trans. By David Grene. Philoctetes; Trans. By	Paperback	5077743		$1.55
	Sophocles: Philoctetes (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)	Kindle Edition	535974	$30.00		2013
	Philoctetes (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)	Kindle Edition	922269	$9.99		2003
	Sophocles: Philoctetes (Cambridge Translations from Greek Drama)	Paperback	1360329	$15.99	$11.10	2001
	Philoctetes (Greek Edition)	Paperback	1117109	$20.99		2012
	Philoctetes (Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana)	Paperback	10558477	$20.90	$26.72	2012
	Sophocles: Philoctetes (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)	Hardcover	695496	$81.50	$81.60	2013
	The Complete Works of Sophocles: Ajax, Antigone, Electra, Oedipus at Colonus, Oedipus the King, Philoctetes, Trachiniae (7 Books With Active Table of Contents)	Kindle Edition	167465	$0.99		2011
	Philoctetes	Paperback	4478881	$9.22	$4.80	2004
	Philoctetes	Hardcover	2728910	$27.00	$31.40	2010
	Sophocles: Antigone (Classic Commentaries)	Paperback	1957455	$47.95	$30.99	2004
	Sophocles: Philoctetes (Classic Commentaries)	Paperback	2397998	$47.45	$41.37	2004
	Four Tragedies: Ajax, Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes	Paperback	911993	$13.00	$1.79	2007
	Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers (The Complete Greek Tragedies)	Paperback	183358	$10.00	$2.06	2013
	Sophocles: Philoctetes (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)	Paperback	1210881	$32.64	$41.59	2013
	The Plays of Sophocles, Vol. 1 of 2: With Original Explanatory English Notes, &C. &C.; Œdipus Coloneus, Œdipus Rex, Philoctetes, Trachiniæ (Classic Reprint)	Paperback	1195159	$16.97		2017
	Four Tragedies: Ajax, Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes (Hackett Classics)	Kindle Edition	803431	$9.49		2007
	Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra & Philoctetes (The Complete Greek Tragedies)	Paperback	756581	$9.99	$1.24	1969
	Philoctetes (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)	Paperback	654026	$10.50	$2.50	2003