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Philoctetes hated Odysseus, Agamemnon and Menelaus, because they were responsible for leaving him behind.
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Philoctetes and Odysseus
Odysseus and Diomedes retrieved Philoctetes, whose wound had healed.
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.
The recall of Philoctetes is told in the lost epic Little Iliad, where his retrieval was accomplished by Odysseus and Diomedes.
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.
Odysseus tricked the weaponry away from Philoctetes, but Diomedes refused to take the weapons without the man.
In another legend, Philoctetes was left on Lemnos by the Greeks on their way to Troy ; and there he suffered ten years ' agony from his wounded foot, until Odysseus and Neoptolemus induced him to accompany them to Troy.
The novel is inspired by Sophocles ' play Philoctetes, with the roles of Odysseus, Neoptolemus and Philoctetes played by Boardman, Rawlins, and Muller, respectively.
In accordance with this prophecy, Odysseus and Diomedes go to Lemnos to bring back Philoctetes, who is healed of his wound by Machaon.
It describes the attempt by Neoptolemus and Odysseus to bring the disabled Philoctetes with them to Troy.
Odysseus sails back to Lemnos with Neoptolemus ( son of Achilles ) in order to get Philoctetes.
The task will not be easy, as Philoctetes bitterly hates Odysseus and the Greeks for leaving him there.
Odysseus explains to Neoptolemus that he must perform a shameful action in order to garner future glory-to take Philoctetes by tricking him with a false story while Odysseus hides.
In order to gain Philoctetes's trust, Neoptolemus tricks Philoctetes into thinking he hates Odysseus as well.
Neoptolemus does this by telling Philoctetes that Odysseus has his father's ( Achilles ) armor.
He tells Philoctetes that this armor was his right by birth, and Odysseus would not give it up to him.
Philoctetes and Menelaus
Machaon ( or his brother ) healed Philoctetes, Telephus and Menelaus, after he sustained an arrow at the hand of Pandarus, during the war.
Philoctetes and because
Philoctetes was Heracles ' friend, and because he lit Heracles's funeral pyre when no one else would, he received Heracles ' bow and arrows.
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.
Philoctetes and they
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.
Helenus revealed to them that they could defeat Troy if they could acquire the poisonous arrows of Heracles ( then in Philoctetes ' possession ); steal the Palladium ( which led to the building of the famous wooden horse of Troy ); and put Achilles ' son in the war.
Knowing that Philoctetes would never agree to come with them, they sailed to the island and stole the bow of Heracles by a trick.
Next they sail as far as Tenedos, where while they are feasting, Philoctetes is bitten by a snake and is left behind in Lemnos.
He foretells that they will need Philoctetes and the bow of Heracles in order to win the war.
This appears to be the conclusion of the play ; however, as they are leaving, Heracles ( now a deity ) appears above them and tells Philoctetes that if he goes to Troy then he will be cured and the Greeks will win.
Philoctetes and were
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.
Another tradition says that the Greeks forced Philoctetes to show them where Heracles's ashes were deposited.
Philoctetes challenged and would have killed Paris, son of Priam, in single combat were it not for the debates over future Greek strategy.
Philoctetes bore the initials M. A., which, to the author's dismay, were interpreted as meaning Matthew Arnold.
Of the fifty tragedies of Theodectes we have the names of about thirteen and a few unimportant fragments ; among them were an Ajax, Oedipus, Orestes and Philoctetes.
Philoctetes and for
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.
However, only one Sophoclean play survives — Aeschylus ' Philoctetes, Euripides ' Philoctetes and Sophocles Philoctetes at Troy are all lost except for some fragments.
He was considered one of the lovers of the hero Heracles, and when Heracles wore the shirt of Nessus and built his funeral pyre, no one would light it for him except for Philoctetes or in other versions his father Poeas.
Philoctetes was one of the many eligible Greeks who competed for the hand of Helen, the Spartan princess ; according to legend, she was the most beautiful woman in the world.
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.
Medôn took control of Philoctetes ' men, and Philoctetes himself remained on Lemnos, alone, for ten years.
* The myth of Philoctetes is the inspiration for William Wordsworth's sonnet " When Philoctetes in the Lemnian Isle ," though here the thematic focus is not the Greek warrior's magical bow or gruesome injury, but his abandonment.
* 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.
*" 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.
Zeus sends Hercules and his forgotten infant-hood friend Pegasus to find the satyr Philoctetes —" Phil " for short — who is known for training heroes.
Eric Goldberg, the supervising animator for Philoctetes, cited Grumpy in Snow White and Bacchus in Fantasia as the inspirations for the character's design.
Euripides produced Medea along with the lost plays Philoctetes, Dictys and the satyr play Theristai, earning him last place at the City Dionysia festival for that year.
Per Hyginus, the goddess Hera, upset with Philoctetes for helping Hercules, had sent the snake to punish him.
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