The Cure at Troy

The Cure at Troy
Frontispiece from the Farrar, Straus and Giroux first American edition.
AuthorSeamus Heaney
LanguageEnglish
Set inHomeric Age
PublisherFarrar, Straus, and Giroux
Publication date
1990
Media typePrint
Pages96
ISBN0374522898
Preceded byThe Haw Lantern 
Followed bySeeing Things 

The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes is a verse adaptation by Seamus Heaney of Sophocles' play Philoctetes. It was first published in 1991.[1] The story comes from one of the myths relating to the Trojan War. It is dedicated in memory of poet and translator Robert Fitzgerald.[2]

  1. ^ Brendan Corcoran, "'Stalled in the Pre-articulate': Heaney, Poetry, and War," in The Oxford Handbook of British and Irish War Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2007), p. 697.
  2. ^ Heaney, Seamus (1990). The Cure at Troy. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.