The cure at Troy

a version of Sophocles' Philoctetes

by Seamus Heaney

1991 81 pages eng

The Cure at Troy is Seamus Heaney's version of Sophocles's Philoctetes. 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 bec…