GREEK 4043.
SOPHOCLES’ PHILOCTETES
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS
SPRING SEMESTER, 2005
Professor Daniel B. Levine
Philoctetes on Lemnos. Painting on aryballos.
4th cent. BCE. Probably inspired by a lost painting by Parrhasios (late
5th century) in which, perhaps for the first time, Philoctetes was portrayed
in a sitting position.
Some
Thoughts on Greek Religion in Philoctetes (D. B. Levine, 2002)
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