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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).
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]
Philoctetes is mentioned briefly in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, and his story was expanded on in Lesches' Little Iliad and Arctinus' Iliupersis. [6] [7] While in transit to fight the Trojan War, 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. [6]
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In Greek mythology, Philotes (/ ˈ f ɪ l ə t iː z /; Ancient Greek: Φιλότης) was a minor goddess or spirit personifying affection, friendship, and sexual intercourse. Sacred and Profane Love (1514–1515), by Titian, Borghese Gallery, Rome
Sophocles, The Philoctetes, 1092 ff with the Scholiast (trans. Jebb) (Greek tragedy 5th century BC) Regarding the Sophocles source, Jebb [ 13 ] says Brunck [ 14 ] reads "πτωκάδες" as "πλωάδες" which is an epithet given by Apollonius Rhodius to the Stymphalian birds in Argonautica 2. 1054.
Other sources cited his son Philoctetes as one of the Argonauts instead of him. [5] More famously, Poeas had a role in the apotheosis of Heracles, his friend. [6] When Heracles realized he was dying from poisonous centaur blood he demanded a funeral pyre built and lit once he stood atop it.