Philoctetes is a tragedy by the Athenian poet Euripides. It was probably first produced in 431 BCE at the Dionysia in a tetralogy that included the extant Medea and was awarded third prize. It is now lost except for a few fragments. Much of what we know of the plot is from the writings of Dio Chrysostom who compared the Philoctetes plays of Aeschylus Euripides and Sophocles and also paraphrased the beginning of Euripides’ play.
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