Philoctetes: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
Philoctetes by Sophocles: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 2 original MP3 tracks, 1:25:50 running time and a link to listen.
Philoctetes, credited to Sophocles, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
About the work
The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
LibriVox recording of Philoctetes by Sophocles. Translated by Lewis Campbell. Sophocles' play recounts an episode from the Trojan War, in which the wily Odysseus and Achilles' son Neoptolemus travel to a remote island to persuade Philoctetes to come with them to Troy. A prophet has foreseen that the Greeks will need Philoctetes and his bow (given to him by Heracles before his death) in order to defeat the Trojans. The problem is that years before Odysseus had engineered Philoctetes' abandonment on the island, due to a festering, stinking wound he had received from a snakebite. Will Philoctetes forgive and forget, or will he take his revenge? (Summary by Elizabeth Klett Cast Odysseus: Bruce Pirie Neoptolemus: mb Chorus: Delmar H. Dolbier Philoctetes: Algy Pug Messenger: Martin Geeson Heracles/Narrator: Elizabeth Klett
Recording facts
- Recording title: Philoctetes
- Author credits: Sophocles
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 2
- Listed recording duration: 1:25:50
Catalogue topics
- audio
- sophocles
- greek drama
- trojan war
Track guide
- 1 - Part 1 — 39:32
- 2 - Part 2 — 46:18
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