SCRIPTURA

Classical Greek

Philoctetes · Φιλοκτήτης

Sophocles

Translated by Richard Jebb

Odysseus and the young Neoptolemus must trick an abandoned man out of the bow of Heracles.

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  • Greek: ed. Francis Storr, from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-greekLit, tlg0011.tlg006, CC BY-SA 4.0).
  • English: Richard Jebb, from the Perseus Digital Library (tlg0011.tlg006.perseus-eng2). Notes are not included.
  • Rows follow the references the two texts share (line numbers), cut where both reach the end of a sentence.

Contents · 3

  1. 1Lines 1–499
  2. 2Lines 500–977
  3. 3Lines 978–1471