Sophocles expresses this savagery with the opening image of "sea girt Lemnos1". ... However, even this bow, which is a divine artefact, given by Apollo to Hercules and from him to Philoctetes is also portrayed in an uncivilised way as the word which Sophocles uses for the hunted meat in the original play is "fodder4", a word used to describe food for beast. ... This is represented by Sophocles by a sequence of repeated syllables; "a,a,a,a,a or pheu, pheu"7. ... In Sophocles, Philocetetes, describes himself as becoming savage, wasting away with a savage disease. ...

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