WorkSophocles

Philoctetes

Philoctetes (409 BCE) Inferred

Sophocles (c. 496–406 BCE) · c. 409 BCE

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Documented 1840

Journals • Notebooks

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this work is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist1record

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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Journal 1840

p27

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“in a few words as in Philoctetus, Read extract from [illegible] ration about shaking Jupiter eagle divine also, and making prose the only tru portraits from your own mind.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Journal 1840." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (85); Box 5 (85).

Undated

Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.

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Notebook: Artists

p77

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“No musician of genius to / express the profound of / affliction like Beethoven. / How would he have / expressed the groans and / anguish of Philoctetes in / the lonely island.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Notebook: Artists." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (94); Box 6.

Inferred Fuller does not name the play; the reference to 'Philoctetes in the lonely island' and his 'groans and anguish' uniquely identifies Sophocles' tragedy.