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Philoctetes (, Philoctētēs ; English pronunciation:, stressed on the third syllable ,-tet -), or Philocthetes, was, according to Greek mythology, the son of King Poeas of Meliboea in Thessaly.
He was the subject of at least two plays by Sophocles, one of which is named after him, and one each by both Aeschylus and Euripides.
However, only one Sophoclean play survives — Aeschylus ' Philoctetes, Euripides ' Philoctetes and Sophocles Philoctetes at Troy are all lost except for some 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.
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