caa a22 4500 386376921 CHVBK 20180307112023.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198911 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/632045 doi S0075426900012738 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/632045 Harrison S. J. Corpus Christi College, Oxford Sophocles and the cult of Philoctetes [Elektronische Daten] [S. J. Harrison] Amongst the legendary heroes who appear in leading roles in the surviving plays of Sophocles, it is noteworthy that Oedipus, Ajax and Heracles all received some form of divine worship in Attica, not to mention localities more readily associated with each of them. Sophocles is not unaware of this aspect of each of these figures, but where the future prospect of their cult is alluded to in the plays, such allusions are not always prominent or explicit; though the future cult of the Oedipus of the Oedipus Coloneus is crucial for the play, it is only directly mentioned in a few passages, while the Ajax of Ajax is seen as a future receiver of cult only in a single unusual scene of supplicating his dead body, and it is unclear in the Trachiniae whether the audience is intended to supply a future cult on Oeta and apotheosis for Heracles. I should here like to argue that in Philoctetes Sophocles again consciously employs a hero destined to receive worship after his death, and that this is subtly suggested at the end of the play. Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1989 The Journal of Hellenic Studies Cambridge University Press 109(1989-11), 173-175 0075-4269 109<173 1989 109 JHS https://doi.org/10.2307/632045 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/632045 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Harrison S. J. Corpus Christi College, Oxford NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Journal of Hellenic Studies Cambridge University Press 109(1989-11), 173-175 0075-4269 109<173 1989 109 JHS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge