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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 King Poeas of Meliboea in 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 Sophokles, one of which is named after him, and one each by Aiskylos and 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 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 Odysseus and Diomedes.
