Santiago Eslava-Bejarano2026-03-222026-03-222019https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/oaiart?codigo=7331056https://andeanlibrary.org/handle/123456789/68566Sophocles’ Philoctetes is the tragedy of a man driven to the limits of his own human nature in a context of total abandonment. In this article, I intend to show that the eponym hero of this tragedy suffers ametamorphosis in which he abandons his human condition andconsciously assumes his own animality. To do this, I will focus on themeaning that the bow and its loss have for the hero and, also, on theapostrophes that express his new relationship with the surroundingenvironment.esHEROHumanitiesTragedy (event)EponymContext (archaeology)PhilosophyArtarticle