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	Philoctetes was the son of [[character::King Poeas]] of Meliboea in [[place::Thessaly]]. He was a Greek hero, famed as an archer, and was a participant in the Trojan War. He was the subject of at least two plays by author::Sophokles]], one of which is named after him, and one each by [[author::Aiskylos]] and [[author::Euripides]]. However, only one Sophoclean play survives with the others only surviving in fragments. He is also mentioned in [[The Iliad, Troy - History and Myth\|Homer's Iliad]]; Book 2 describes his exile on the island of [[place::Lemnos]], his wound by snake-bite, and his eventual recall by the Greeks. The recall of Philoctetes is told in the lost epic Little Iliad, where his retrieval was accomplished by [[character::Odysseus]] and [[character::Diomedes]].		Philoctetes was the son of [[character::King Poeas]] of Meliboea in [[place::Thessaly]]. He was a Greek hero, famed as an archer, and was a participant in the Trojan War. He was the subject of at least two plays by [[author::Sophokles]], one of which is named after him, and one each by [[author::Aiskylos]] and [[author::Euripides]]. However, only one Sophoclean play survives with the others only surviving in fragments. He is also mentioned in [[The Iliad, Troy - History and Myth\|Homer's Iliad]]; Book 2 describes his exile on the island of [[place::Lemnos]], his wound by snake-bite, and his eventual recall by the Greeks. The recall of Philoctetes is told in the lost epic Little Iliad, where his retrieval was accomplished by [[character::Odysseus]] and [[character::Diomedes]].

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	Philoctetes was the son of [[character::King Poeas]] of Meliboea in [[place::Thessaly]]. He was a Greek hero, famed as an archer, and was a participant in the Trojan War. He was the subject of at least two plays by author::Sophokles]], one of which is named after him, and one each by [[author::Aiskylos]] and [[author::Euripides]]. However, only one Sophoclean play survives with the others only surviving in fragments. He is also mentioned in Homer's Iliad; Book 2 describes his exile on the island of [[place::Lemnos]], his wound by snake-bite, and his eventual recall by the Greeks. The recall of Philoctetes is told in the lost epic Little Iliad, where his retrieval was accomplished by [[character::Odysseus]] and [[character::Diomedes]].		Philoctetes was the son of [[character::King Poeas]] of Meliboea in [[place::Thessaly]]. He was a Greek hero, famed as an archer, and was a participant in the Trojan War. He was the subject of at least two plays by author::Sophokles]], one of which is named after him, and one each by [[author::Aiskylos]] and [[author::Euripides]]. However, only one Sophoclean play survives with the others only surviving in fragments. He is also mentioned in [[The Iliad, Troy - History and Myth\|Homer's Iliad]]; Book 2 describes his exile on the island of [[place::Lemnos]], his wound by snake-bite, and his eventual recall by the Greeks. The recall of Philoctetes is told in the lost epic Little Iliad, where his retrieval was accomplished by [[character::Odysseus]] and [[character::Diomedes]].

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Philoctetes was the son of [[character::King Poeas]] of Meliboea in [[place::Thessaly]]. He was a Greek hero, famed as an archer, and was a participant in the Trojan War. He was the subject of at least two plays by author::Sophokles]], one of which is named after him, and one each by [[author::Aiskylos]] and [[author::Euripides]]. However, only one Sophoclean play survives with the others only surviving in fragments. He is also mentioned in Homer's Iliad; Book 2 describes his exile on the island of [[place::Lemnos]], his wound by snake-bite, and his eventual recall by the Greeks. The recall of Philoctetes is told in the lost epic Little Iliad, where his retrieval was accomplished by [[character::Odysseus]] and [[character::Diomedes]].

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