... of some rude hand3" a bed made of leaves; material for making a fire and especially Philoctetes' bow. 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 ... his old heroic past and his literal death by him surviving on this harsh island are brought together through the idea of the cave. As Philoctetes' divine bow is harshly stolen from him, he returns to his cave, where he realises a certain death by starvation "I'll soon be tainted meat,...

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