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* Philoctetes makes several appearances in the 2007 French novel / collection of linked short stories La chaussure sur le toit by Vincent Delecroix.
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Later in the war, after Philoctetes mortally wounds Paris, Helen makes her way to Mount Ida where she begs Paris's first wife, the nymph Oenone, to heal him.
* Philoctetes makes an appearance in the 1997 animated movie Hercules.
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Heracles then uproots several trees and builds a funeral pyre, which Poeas, father of Philoctetes, lights.
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* The legend of Philoctetes was, in part, the inspiration for Robert Silverberg's science fiction novel The Man in the Maze.
* In the novel, The Division Of The Spoils, the last part of The Raj Quartet by Paul Scott, filmed as the TV series The Jewel In The Crown in 1984, " Philoctetes " is used as his pen name by Hari Kumar for his articles in the Ranpur Gazette.
* In the 1998 novel Sirena by Donna Jo Napoli, Philoctetes is included as a main character.
In the novel it is Achilles's son, Neoptolemus, who refuses to leave Philoctetes behind, but after having them returned, he leaves a single arrow with her, and returns to Greece.
* Mark Merlis features a version of Philoctetes in his 1998 AIDS-themed novel An Arrow's Flight.
*" The Wounded Philoctetes " by Nikolaj Abraham Abildgaard, 1775, now in the Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen, which is also used as the front cover for the Penguin Classics edition of the novel, Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley.
The novel is inspired by Sophocles ' play Philoctetes, with the roles of Odysseus, Neoptolemus and Philoctetes played by Boardman, Rawlins, and Muller, respectively.
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* Philoctetes, National / Old Vic, 1964
* Danny DeVito as Philoctetes / Phil.
* Philoctetes ( / Philoktètes ') of 409 BC ;
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Zeus sends Hercules and his forgotten infant-hood friend Pegasus to find the satyr Philoctetes —" Phil " for short — who is known for training heroes.
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Laurent Terzieff in Philoctetes ( sketch « sur le vif », Chambéry, February 2010 ).
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Sophocles was appreciative enough of the younger poet to be influenced by him, as is evident in his later plays Philoctetes and Oedipus at Colonus.
For this action, Philoctetes or Poeas received Heracles ' bow and arrows, which were later needed by the Greeks to defeat Troy in the Trojan War.
Philoctetes was then bitten by a snake.
Philoctetes stayed on Lemnos for ten years, which was a deserted island according to Sophocles ' tragedy Philoctetes, but according to earlier tradition was populated by Minyans.
He is not killed by Philoctetes in this version, but leaves the falling city of Troy together with Helen and survives.
Mortally wounded by Philoctetes ' arrow, he begged Oenone to heal him with her herbal arts, but she refused and cast him out with scorn, to return to Helen's bed, and Paris died on the lower slopes of Ida.
He said that they would win if they stole the Trojan Palladium, brought the bones of Pelops to Troy, and persuaded Neoptolemus ( Achilles ' son by the Scyrian princess Deidamia ) and Philoctetes ( who possessed Heracles ' bow and arrows ) to join the Greeks in the war.
Years earlier, on the way to Troy, Philoctetes was bitten by a snake on Chryse Island.
This retrieval is the plot of Philoctetes, a play by Sophocles.
Although Neoptolemus is often depicted thus, the play Philoctetes by Sophocles shows him being a much kinder man, who honours his promises and shows remorse when he is made to trick Philoctetes.
* Neoptolemus is one of the main characters in Philoctetes, a tragedy by Sophocles.
Knowing that Philoctetes would never agree to come with them, they sailed to the island and stole the bow of Heracles by a trick.
This bow and arrows were used by Philoctetes ( who came with Diomedes and Odysseus to Troy ) to slay Paris ; this was a requirement to the fall of Troy.
In the Trojan War, he took over Philoctetes ' army after Philoctetes was bitten by a snake and left on Lemnos because the wound festered and smelled bad.
The recall of Philoctetes is told in the lost epic Little Iliad, where his retrieval was accomplished by Odysseus and Diomedes.
Philoctetes was stranded on the Island of Lemnos or Chryse by the Greeks on the way to Troy.
One version holds that Philoctetes was bitten by a snake that Hera sent to molest him as punishment for his or his father's service to Heracles.
Philoctetes would not break his oath by speech, so he went to the spot and placed his foot upon the site.
Finally, it is said that Philoctetes received his terrible wound on the island of Chryse, when he unknowingly trespassed into the shrine of the nymph after whom the island was named ( this is the version in the extant play by Sophocles ).
Regardless of the cause of the wound, Philoctetes was exiled by the Greeks and was angry at the treatment he received from Odysseus, King of Ithaca, who had advised the Atreidae to strand him.
( As Sophocles writes it in his play named Philoctetes, Odysseus is accompanied by Neoptolemus, Achilles ' son, also known as Pyrrhus.
Heracles, who had become a god many years earlier, came down from Olympus and told Philoctetes to go and that he would be healed by the son of Asclepius and win great honor as a hero of the Achaean army.
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Perithoas and Phrix are otherwise unknown, and so is the version that suggests a sexual relationship between Heracles and Philoctetes.
Philoctetes confronted Paris and shot a poisoned arrow at him.
The group of heroes included the Boreads ( sons of Boreas, the North Wind ) who could fly, Heracles, Philoctetes, Peleus, Telamon, Orpheus, Castor and Pollux, Atalanta, and Euphemus.
He is shown to have been a student of Philoctetes and takes his advice to let Hercules travel with him.
Philoctetes was Heracles ' friend, and because he lit Heracles's funeral pyre when no one else would, he received Heracles ' bow and arrows.
The wound festered and had a foul smell ; on Odysseus's advice, the Atreidae ordered Philoctetes to stay on Lemnos.
After the tenth year, it was prophesied that Troy could not fall without Heracles ' bow, which was with Philoctetes in Lemnos.
Odysseus and Diomedes retrieved Philoctetes, whose wound had healed.
Philoctetes then shot and killed Paris.
* Philoctetes, due to a sedition, was driven from his city and emigrated to Italy, where he founded the cities of Petilia, Old Crimissa, and Chone, between Croton and Thurii.
* 1994-Hugh Lloyd-Jones, verse ( Sophocles, Volume II: Antigone, The Women of Trachis, Philoctetes, Oedipus at Colonus, Loeb Classical Library No. 21, 1994 ; ISBN 978-0-674-99558-1 )
* Sophocles ' play Philoctetes is performed, with the theme of the Trojan War.
* Hercules: Hercules, Megara, Hades, Pain and Panic, Philoctetes, Pegasus, the Muses, Zeus, Hera, Hermes, The Fates, Nessus, the Hydra, and Bacchus.
As an example he gives the case of Neoptolemus ( in Sophocles ' Philoctetes ) refusing to lie despite being part of a plan he agreed with.
It is he rather than Helenus ( as suggested in Sophocles ' Philoctetes ) that predicts that Troy will only fall once the Argives are able to recruit Philoctetes.
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