Sophocles Philoctetes

Philoctetes is an extraordinarily timely and timeless play. Dramatising the efforts of those who had wronged him to bring the play's hero, Philoctetes, to join the Greek forces in their war against Troy, it traces the moral and emotional development of the young Neoptolemos as he struggles between the values of honesty and deceit, honour and expedience. Hanna Roisman's accessible companion makes Sophocles' great play enjoyable and meaningful to modern readers who want to know more about the world of classical Greek tragedy.

Hannah M. Roisman is Professor of Classics and Chair of the Department at Colby College, Maine.