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PRONUNCIATION OF PHILOCTETES

Philoctetes  [ˌfɪlɒkˈtiːtiːz] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PHILOCTETES

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Philoctetes is a noun.
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WHAT DOES PHILOCTETES MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Philoctetes

Philoctetes

Philoctetes, or Philocthetes, was, according to Greek mythology, the son of King Poeas of Meliboea in Thessaly. He was a Greek hero, famed as an archer, and was a participant in the Trojan War. He was the subject of at least two plays by Sophocles, one of which is named after him, and one each by both Aeschylus and Euripides. However, only one Sophoclean play survives—Aeschylus' Philoctetes, Euripides' Philoctetes and Sophocles Philoctetes at Troy are all lost except for some fragments. He is also mentioned in Homer's Iliad; Book 2 describes his exile on the island of Lemnos, his wound by snake-bite, and his eventual recall by the Greeks. The recall of Philoctetes is told in the lost epic Little Iliad, where his retrieval was accomplished by Diomedes. Philoctetes killed three men at Troy.

Definition of Philoctetes in the English dictionary

The definition of Philoctetes in the dictionary is a hero of the Trojan War, in which he killed Paris with the bow and poisoned arrows given to him by Hercules.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PHILOCTETES


agonothetes
əˌɡəʊnəˈθiːtiːz
Cervantes
səˈvæntiːz
cutes
ˈkjuːtiːz
expertise
ˌɛkspɜːˈtiːz
fortes
ˈfɔːtiːz
Jaxartes
dʒækˈsɑːtiːz
Laertes
leɪˈɜːtiːz
limites
ˈlɪmɪˌtiːz
Maltese
mɔːlˈtiːz
mycetes
maɪˈsiːtiːz
penates
pəˈnɑːtiːz
Pilates
pɪˈlɑːtiːz
saccharomycetes
ˌsækərəʊˌmaɪˈsiːtiːz
striptease
ˈstrɪpˌtiːz
Sudetes
suːˈdiːtiːz
Surtees
ˈsɜːtiːz
tagetes
tæˈdʒiːtiːz
tease
tiːz
Tees
tiːz
testes
ˈtɛstiːz

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PHILOCTETES

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Philo Judaeus

WORDS THAT END LIKE PHILOCTETES

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Synonyms and antonyms of Philoctetes in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «Philoctetes» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PHILOCTETES

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The translations of Philoctetes from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Philoctetes» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

菲罗克忒忒斯
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Filoctetes
570 millions of speakers

English

Philoctetes
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

Philoctetes
380 millions of speakers
ar

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فيلوكتيتيس
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Филоктет
278 millions of speakers

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Filoctetes
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

Philoctetes
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Philoctète
220 millions of speakers

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Philoctetes
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Philoktet
180 millions of speakers

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ピロクテテス
130 millions of speakers

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Philoctetes
85 millions of speakers

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Philoctetes
85 millions of speakers
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Philoctetes
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

Philoctetes
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

फिलोक्टेसेट्स
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Philoctetes
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Filottete
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Philoctetes
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Филоктет
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Philoctetes
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

Φιλοκτήτης
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

Philoctetes
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

Filoktetes
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

Philoktetes
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Philoctetes

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PHILOCTETES»

The term «Philoctetes» is normally little used and occupies the 121.172 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PHILOCTETES» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Philoctetes

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PHILOCTETES»

Discover the use of Philoctetes in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Philoctetes and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Sophocles' Philoctetes and the Great Soul Robbery
Norman Austin brings both keen insight and a life-long engagement with his subject to this study of Sophocles’ late tragedy Philoctetes, a fifth-century BCE play adapted from an infamous incident during the Trojan War.
Norman Austin, 2011
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Four Tragedies: Ajax, Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes
Meineck and Woodruff's new translations of these plays combine accuracy with concision, clarity, and powerful speech.
Sophocles, Peter Meineck, Paul Woodruff, 2007
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Philoctetes
Philoctetes Sophocles Philoctetes, the bowman, is Sophocles' most haunting and ambiguous tragic hero.
Sophocles, 2000
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The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes
The Cure at Troy is Seamus Heaney's version of Sophocles' Philoctetes.
Seamus Heaney, 2014
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Sophocles: Philoctetes
Accessible edition with commentary of this widely read but highly complex and challenging play. Provides help with morphology, grammar and syntax and interpretation of the text in its historical, social, cultural and intellectual contexts.
Sophocles, Seth L. Schein, 2013
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Sophocles: plays, Philoctetes
They have had a profound influence on subsequent Sophoclean scholarship. All seven plays of Sophocles in their full editions by Jebb are being reissued in this series.
Sophocles, R. C. Jebb, Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb, 2004
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Sophocles: Philoctetes
The play dramatizes the suffering and rage of Philoctetes and the moral and emotional development of Odysseus' assistant, the young Neoptolemus. This is an introduction to the play for students and lay readers.
Hanna Roisman, 2005
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Gods, Goddesses, and Mythology
PHILOCTETES The Death of Heracles were met: first, that Achilles' son Neoptolemus fight for the. In Greek mythology, Philoctetes was the hero to whom Heracles entrusted his famous bow and poisoned arrows. He used these weapons to ...
C. Scott Littleton, 2005
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Ajax. Philoctetes. Trachiniæ
But that that Chrysa was situated near Lemnos, where Philoctetes received his wound, is also stated by Pausanias VIII, 33., which passage I have adduced above δ. 3. p. 8. Now although Sophocles does not tell us in' direct terms where ...
Sophocles, Eduard Wunder, 1855
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Interpreting Sophocles' Philoctetes through Aristotle's ...
This book applies many of the categories in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Politics, Poetics and Rhetoric to the three main characters in Sophocles' play, Philoctetes: Neoptolemus, Odysseus and Philoctetes.
Martha C. Beck, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PHILOCTETES»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Philoctetes is used in the context of the following news items.
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Who Is God?
Deus ex machinas are fine for plays like Sophocles' Philoctetes or The Threepenny Opera where Macheath is miraculously spared the gallows ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
2
The Greece I once knew is now just a myth
This bunch that are angry and at the helm right now bring Philoctetes to mind. Philoctetes was hardly mentioned in Homer, yet Euripides, ... «Spectator.co.uk, Jul 15»
3
Selfie with 'Sunflowers'
Inevitably, we are tempted to equate the madness with the genius, to propose Van Gogh as the ultimate modern exemplar of the myth of Philoctetes: of the ... «London Review of Books, Jul 15»
4
Classics Professor Compares House of Cards Trickster to Odysseus
“Just as Odysseus draws the good and honest Neoptolemus [son of the warrior Achilles] into his schemes in Sophocles' tragedy Philoctetes, we ... «Illinois Wesleyan University, Jul 15»
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Disney animated characters trivia
(Philoctetes). 7. In “The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad” (1949), what was the name of the species of rodent called a water vole? (Ratty). 8. «Bluffton Today, Jul 15»
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How Greek mythology can help explain the economic crisis
I'm thinking about a Sophoclean character called Philoctetes who is wounded on the way to Troy. His wound is so terrible it goes putrid, it stinks ... «CBC.ca, Jul 15»
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Folklore and Myth in Film
Accompanied by his faithful companion Philoctetes and Pegasus, they learn together the best ways for Hercules to defeat the opposition he ... «FemaleFirst.co.uk, Jul 15»
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Game of Thrones star treading the boards at the Byre Theatre
He is cast in Philoctetes, part of the A Play, A Pie and A Pint lunchtime series. Glasgow-born Portman, 23, whose actor father Ron Donachie ... «The Courier, Jul 15»
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'MY REPORT TO THE WORLD' with David Strathairn Adds Second …
... performers which presents reading of Sophocles' Ajax and Philoctetes to military and civilian communities across the world with the intention ... «Broadway World, Jun 15»
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The Philoctetes Myth and The Wound and the Bow
Sometimes you have a wound that never heals. That was the story of the Greek warrior Philoctetes who was exiled to the island of Lemnos due ... «Huffington Post, Jun 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Philoctetes [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/philoctetes>. Apr 2024 ».
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