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“Dame Disease?”: A Note on the Gender of Philoctetes’ Wound

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  • Victor Bers
Victor Bers
Yale University

Published 2015-05-20

Keywords

  • Gender,
  • Philoctetes,
  • Sophocles
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How to Cite

Bers, V. (2015). “Dame Disease?”: A Note on the Gender of Philoctetes’ Wound. Hyperboreus, 20(1-2), 105-108. https://doi.org/10.36950/hyperboreus.LGKW1759

Abstract

Although Sophocles’ Philoctetes many times over refers to Philoctetes’ affliction with a feminine noun, ἡ νόσος, Seth Schein’s recent commentary on the play is mistaken to refer to it as “female”.

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