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Infection in the Sentence: The Discourse of Disease in Sophocles' Philoctetes

The Philoctetes is a notoriously elusive drama, much studied but often poorly understood. Sophocles’ reputation as a staunch upholder of aristocratic values tends to determine which aspects of the play receive attention: disruptive elements in the Sophoclean hero’s character, for example, are often assessed as incidental to his dilemma, rather than as central to his narrative and thus to his character type. Penelope Biggs is still virtually