Ep. 12: Sophocles' Philoktetes

Combat and Classics Podcast

English - September 28, 2017 02:28 - 43 minutes - 50.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 74 ratings
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What role do lying and deception play in achieving strategic objectives? Jeff, Lise and Brian discuss that and other questions as raised by Sophocles in Philoktetes, in which a soldier (Philoktetes) is recovered from an island where he was left after being wounded. His significance arises from his possession is the famed bow of Heracles, which the characters Odysseus and Neoptolemus believe is necessary to win the Trojan war.

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