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Philoctetes at Lemnos, on an Attic red-figure lekythos, ca. 420 BC (Metropolitan Museum of Art). Philoctetes (Ancient Greek: Φιλοκτήτης Philoktētēs; English pronunciation: / ˌ f ɪ l ə k ˈ t iː t iː z /, stressed on the third syllable, -tet-[1]), or Philocthetes, according to Greek mythology, was the son of Poeas, king of Meliboea in Thessaly, and Demonassa [2] or Methone. [3]
Philoctetes (Ancient Greek: Φιλοκτήτης, Philoktētēs; English pronunciation: / ˌ f ɪ l ə k ˈ t iː t iː z /, stressed on the third syllable, -tet-[1]) is a play by Sophocles (Aeschylus and Euripides also each wrote a Philoctetes but theirs have not survived). The play was written during the Peloponnesian War. It is one of the ...
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Sophocles wrote more than 120 plays, [3] but only seven have survived in a complete form: Ajax, Antigone, Women of Trachis, Oedipus Rex, Electra, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus. [4] For almost fifty years, Sophocles was the most celebrated playwright in the dramatic competitions of the city-state of Athens , which took place during the ...
Philoctetes: Pyrgo Ioxeia † Chersidamas Odysseus: Hyperenor Menelaus: Peiros Thoas: Tenes Achilles: Oïstrophe † Chlemus Meriones: Hypsenor Eurypylus: Pelagon ? Theano Pharetre † Chromius Diomedes: Hyrtius Ajax the Greater: Pelias wounded by Odysseus: Tisiphone ? Polemusa Achilles: Cleobulus Ajax the Lesser: Hysminus Neoptolemus: Perilaus ...
1869 Philoctetes / f ɪ l ə k ˈ t iː t iː z / is a Jupiter trojan from the Greek camp, approximately 23 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on September 24, 1960, by the Dutch and Dutch–American astronomers Cornelis van Houten , Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory on Palomar Mountain, California. [ 4 ]
Philoctetes's retrieval is the plot of Philoctetes, a play by Sophocles. Some sources portray Neoptolemus as brutal. He killed at least six on the field of battle [ 8 ] and several more during the subsequent fall of Troy ( Priam , Eurypylus , Polyxena , Polites and Astyanax (Hector and Andromache's infant son) among others).
Philoctetes is mentioned briefly in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, and his story was expanded on in Lesches' Little Iliad and Arctinus' Iliupersis. [2] [3] The Greeks had abandoned Philoctetes on the island of Lemnos on their way to Troy because they could not stand his screams of pain and the odor from his wound after he was bitten by a poisonous snake. [2]