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grbs-11421	Podlecki, Anthony J.	The Power of the Word in Sophocles’ Philoctetes	1966	18	.pdf	application/pdf	6935	362	78	233 The Power of the Word in Sophocles' Phi/oetetes Anthony J. Podlecki \' ~, ' G l\oyOS OV)!aaTy]S f-LEyaS EaTt)!, ORGIAS THE Philoctetes is a much-discussed play.1 Most of its critics feel that it is one of the harder of Sophocles' plays to make intelli­ gible to the modern reader, who tends to ask questions like: Is Philoctetes or Neoptolemus the hero? Philoctetes tells Neoptolemus later, I know that Odysseus would touch any evil argument with his tongue (407-408).	cache/grbs-11421.pdf	txt/grbs-11421.txt