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<p><i>The Cure at Troy</i> is Seamus Heaney's version of Sophocles' <i>Philoctetes</i>. Written in the fifth century BC, this play concerns the predicament of the outcast hero, Philoctetes, whom the Greeks marooned on the island of Lemnos and forgot about until the closing stages of the Siege of Troy. Abandoned because of a wounded foot, Philoctetes nevertheless possesses an invincible bow without which the Greeks cannot win the Trojan War. They are forced to return to Lemnos and seek out Philoc

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Author

Heaney, Seamus

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published

1991

Language

EN

ISBN

9780374133559

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Fiction, History, Literary Fiction

Rating

4.04 / 5 (418 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14