Philoctetes.
Beautiful Letters| N° d'inventaire | 15786 |
| Format | 11 x 18 |
| Détails | 123 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2012 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782251800202 |
Classic bilingual collection. Legendary archer, heir to the bow of Heracles, whose arrows are invincible, Philoctetes languishes on the island of Lemnos, where his companions, on their way to Troy, abandoned him, because the gangrene he is suffering from gives off an unbearable stench. However, without the bow of Heracles, the city of Troy will not fall. After betraying him once, the Greeks, led by Odysseus, come to persuade him, through cunning, to grant them his aid. Philoctetes refuses to listen to the political reasons that lead Odysseus and Neoptolemus to remember him: to the Necessity of the oppressors, he opposes the Necessity of the oppressed. He is the man who knows how to say no to the gods, to men, to healing, to political quibbles. Ninety years later, in 409 BC, Sophocles composed this lyrical and powerful tragedy, which shows the limits of heroism and recalls the inherent fragility of the human condition.
Classic bilingual collection. Legendary archer, heir to the bow of Heracles, whose arrows are invincible, Philoctetes languishes on the island of Lemnos, where his companions, on their way to Troy, abandoned him, because the gangrene he is suffering from gives off an unbearable stench. However, without the bow of Heracles, the city of Troy will not fall. After betraying him once, the Greeks, led by Odysseus, come to persuade him, through cunning, to grant them his aid. Philoctetes refuses to listen to the political reasons that lead Odysseus and Neoptolemus to remember him: to the Necessity of the oppressors, he opposes the Necessity of the oppressed. He is the man who knows how to say no to the gods, to men, to healing, to political quibbles. Ninety years later, in 409 BC, Sophocles composed this lyrical and powerful tragedy, which shows the limits of heroism and recalls the inherent fragility of the human condition.