Philoctetes (Aeschylus play)

Philoctetes
Wounded Philoctetes
Written byAeschylus
ChorusMen of Lemnos
CharactersPhiloctetes
Odysseus
Others?
Date premieredprobably 470s BCE
Place premieredAthens
Original languageAncient Greek
GenreTragedy
SettingLemnos

Philoctetes (Ancient Greek: Φιλοκτήτης) is a play by the Athenian poet Aeschylus. It was probably first produced during the 470s BCE. It is now lost except for a few fragments. Most of what we know of the plot is from the writings of 1st century orator Dio Chrysostom, who compared the Philoctetes plays of Aeschylus, Euripides and Sophocles.

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