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How do British classicists pronounce the word Philoctetes?
languagehat.com: CLASSICAL LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION PROJECT. 2005
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"Philoctetes" was the text in my fifth-quarter Classical Greek class at the University of Utah.
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Sophocles '"Philoctetes", from the point of view of composition the most modern of the classical dramas.
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[797] Fragments from the "Philoctetes" of Euripides.
Plutarch's Morals 46-120? Plutarch
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Sophocles; and yet Pater declares that the "Philoctetes" of Sophocles, if issued to-day, would be called romantic.
A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century 1886
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"Philoctetes," Sophocles introduces, as an element of tragedy, physical pain, though it is combined with moral suffering.
Specimens of Greek Tragedy — Aeschylus and Sophocles Goldwin Smith 1866
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Whatever will excite interest in a healthy, vigorous mind, that is a fair object of poetry, and there is a painful as well as a pleasant interest; it is an abuse of language to describe the sensations which we experience on reading "Philoctetes" or "Hamlet" as pleasant.
Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc James Anthony Froude 1856
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The "Philoctetes" has always been ranked by critics among the most elaborate and polished of the tragedies of Sophocles.
Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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As Heaney wrote in his play, "The Cure at Troy," based on Sophocles '"Philoctetes":
Latest News 2009
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As Heaney wrote in his play, "The Cure at Troy," based on Sophocles '"Philoctetes":
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