All 5 entries tagged Philoctete

His cripple

His cripple (2.XX.ii).

Possibly a reference to Caliban, Prospero's slave in Shakespeare's The Tempest. Minkler (1993) discusses other allusions to the play in Omeros (see Critical Bibliography).

Amanda Hopkins : 08 Jun 2008 12:19 |  Tags: Caliban Characters Context Glossary His Cripple Philoctete Prospero The Tempest William Shakespeare |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

not Rome but home

like another Aeneas,/founding not Rome but home (7.LX.i).

Compare Aeneas' flight from Troy and journey in Aeneid 1. Aeneas flees with a symbol of the past (Anchises), the future (Ascanius) and his culture (figurines of the gods). Likewise, Achille attempts to flee with his own culture (his fishing boat), and a strong symbol of his past (Philoctete, and his freshly healed wound).

Amanda Hopkins : 09 Jul 2007 14:07 |  Tags: Achille Aeneas Aeneid Characters Dispossession Epic Tradition Fishing Identity & Naming Not Rome But Home Philoctete Poetics |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Philoctete

Amanda Hopkins : 23 Jun 2007 12:08 |  Tags: Characters Philoctete |  Comments (1) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

NO PAIN prophecy

NO PAIN/CAFÉ […] "Is a prophecy" (1.III.ii).

A pun on the French pain (bread), the name both suggests a place of relaxation and is an omen foretelling that the owner Ma Kilman will heal Philoctete's sore (6.XLIX.i) and help to ease Dennis Plunkett's grieving (7.LXI.i-iii).

Amanda Hopkins : 22 Jun 2007 11:18 |  Tags: Characters Dennis Plunkett Epic Tradition Ma Kilman No Pain Prohecy Philoctete Poetics Prophecy & Omens Wound |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

sore on his shin

[…] Philoctete. The sore on his shin/still unhealed (1.II.i).

The reference to Philoctete in conjunction to his as yet unhealed and unhealing wound is a link with Homer's Philoktetes who also had a wound in the Iliad (see Iliad 2:716-25).

Amanda Hopkins : 20 Jun 2007 13:52 |  Tags: Characters Epic Tradition Iliad Philoctete Philoktetes Sore On His Shin Trojan War |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem