Note 20 — Chapter III · COMEDIES OF THE WAR: THE ACHARNIANS—THE PEACE—LYSISTRATA.
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Telephus, Philoctetes, Bellerophon, and probably other tragedy heroes, were all represented by Euripides as lame. But no one could possibly have made greater capital out of the physical sufferings of Philoctetes from his lame foot than the author’s favourite Sophocles.