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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]
the first Greek soldier to die at Troy Protogeneia: Πρωτογένεια the name of several mythological figures Prothoenor: Προθοήνωρ one of the Greek leaders in the Trojan War Psophis: Ψῶφις the name of several mythological figures Pterelaos: Πτερέλαος the name of several mythological figures Ptous: Πτῶος
Chryse, a nymph or minor goddess of Lemnos (or of Chryse Island) who lured Philoctetes away from his companions which resulted in him being bitten by a snake. [3] Some sources state that Chryse was a local epithet of Athena , and the misfortune happened to Philoctetes next to her altar, which the snake was guarding. [ 4 ]
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.
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