Uploaded April 2020 | Updated September 2026, 21 hours ago
A reading and discussion of Sophocles' Philoctetes (trans. Richard Claverhouse Jebb). Tim Delap, Evelyn Miller, Paul O'Mahony, and Jack Whitam perform select scenes, with Joel Christensen (Brandeis University) and Norman Sandridge (Howard University) moderating the discussion. Reading Greek Tragedy Online is presented by the Center for Hellenic Studies, the Kosmos Society, and Out of Chaos Theatre.
Scene selections:
1-130 - Neoptolemos and Odysseus
219-390 - Neoptolemos and Philoctetes
468-507 - Philoctetes
730-825 - Neoptolemos and Philoctetes
1222-1470 - Neoptolemos, Philoctetes, Odysseus, Chorus, Heracles
Credits:
Neoptolemos - Evvy Miller
Odysseus - Jack Whitam
Philoctetes - Tim Delap
Heracles - Paul O’Mahony
Director - Paul O'Mahony
More information about the cast and featured speakers is at https://chs.harvard.edu/CHS/article/display/7081.
Further reading and viewing:
1) "Sophocles' Philoctetes - On Pity and Conscience" on Critic.Reading.Writing with Ato Quayson:
youtu.be/5xlQgzx29bY
2) Austin, N. 2011. Sophocles’ Philoctetes and the Great Soul Robbery. Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press.
3) Prauscello, L. 2010. "The language of pity: Eleos and oiktos in Sophocles’ Philoctetes." Cambridge Classical Journal 56:199–212.
A reading and discussion of Sophocles' Philoctetes (trans. Richard Claverhouse Jebb). Tim Delap, Evelyn Miller, Paul O'Mahony, and Jack Whitam perform select scenes, with Joel Christensen (Brandeis University) and Norman Sandridge (Howard University) moderating the discussion. Reading Greek Tragedy Online is presented by the Center for Hellenic Studies, the Kosmos Society, and Out of Chaos Theatre.
Scene selections:
1-130 - Neoptolemos and Odysseus
219-390 - Neoptolemos and Philoctetes
468-507 - Philoctetes
730-825 - Neoptolemos and Philoctetes
1222-1470 - Neoptolemos, Philoctetes, Odysseus, Chorus, Heracles
Credits:
Neoptolemos - Evvy Miller
Odysseus - Jack Whitam
Philoctetes - Tim Delap
Heracles - Paul O’Mahony
Director - Paul O'Mahony
More information about the cast and featured speakers is at https://chs.harvard.edu/CHS/article/display/7081.
Further reading and viewing:
1) "Sophocles' Philoctetes - On Pity and Conscience" on Critic.Reading.Writing with Ato Quayson:
youtu.be/5xlQgzx29bY
2) Austin, N. 2011. Sophocles’ Philoctetes and the Great Soul Robbery. Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press.
3) Prauscello, L. 2010. "The language of pity: Eleos and oiktos in Sophocles’ Philoctetes." Cambridge Classical Journal 56:199–212.
