Philoctetes : king of the Malians of Mt. Oeta. He was a friend of Hercules & inherited his bow & poisoned arrows. On the way to the Trojan War, he was bitten by a snake, & his companions left him on the desolate island of Lemnos. When the oracle declared that Troy would not be taken without the weapons of Hercules, Philoctetes was brought by Diomedes & Odysseus to Troy, where he was healed of his wound by Machson, son of the physician Asclepius. Philoctetes killed Paris in the war.
... we can die with him. THOAS That's nobly spoken. PHILOCTETES But too like a woman. Antiochus enters with Rodogune. ANTIOCHUS To Antioch! Is all ready for our march? PHILOCTETES Antiochus, my king, I think in Egypt We loved each other. Page 290 ANTIOCHUS Less here, my Philoctetes? PHILOCTETES Then by that love, dear friend, go not to Antioch. Let... Antiochus, Philoctetes. ANTIOCHUS The summons comes not and my life still waits. PHILOCTETES Patience, beloved Antiochus. Even now He fronts the darkness. ANTIOCHUS Nothing have I spoken As wishing for his death. His was a mould That should have been immortal. But since all Are voyagers to one goal and wishing's vain To hold one traveller back, I keep my hopes. O Philoctetes, we... crude ironies. ANTIOCHUS Has not nurse Mentho often sworn to me That I, not he, saw earth the first? PHILOCTETES And when Did woman's tongue except in wrath or malice Deliver truth that's bitter? ANTIOCHUS Philoctetes, Do you not wish me to be king? PHILOCTETES Why left I then Nile in his fields and Egypt slumbering Couchant upon her sands, but to pursue Your gallant ...
... and a magnificent tomb was built. After the death of Achilles, there was such a great vacuum that the Greeks were gripped by despair. However, in the course of the war, Paris was killed by Philoctetes, who avenged the death of Achilles. At the same time, Odysseus, king of Ithaca, thought of a plan, and all the other leaders agreed with it and began to carry it out. A huge wooden horse was built ...
... achievements Page 53 of Memnon and Penthesilea, the treacherous killing of Achilles by Paris, the quarrel between Odysseus and Ajax, the killing of Paris with the bow of Philoctetes, and other episodes since commemorated in tragedy and heroic poetry. From the nine Books of Ilion now available it is difficult to say how Sri Aurobindo had planned to plot his epic ...
... of the Cretans, Acamas, Nestor, Neleus' son, and the brave Ephialtus, Prothous, Meges, Leitus the bold and the king Prothoënor, Page 440 Wise Alceste's son and the Lemnian, stern Philoctetes, These and unnumbered warlike captains marching the Argives. Last in his spacious car drove shaping the tread of his armies, Even as a shepherd who follows his flock to the green of the pastures ...
... accepted by his parents. He was allowed, despite further prophecies, to sail to Sparta where he carried Helen off and thus caused the Trojan War. He was the slayer of Achilles and was slain by Philoctetes. Peleus: Son of Aeacus, who was a son of Zeus, and king of Phthia. For his virtue he was given as wife the sea goddess Thetis, who bore him Achilles. Pelion: Mountain in Thessaly ...
... heel by which his mother held him when he dipped him into the immortalizing water of the river Styx. Still Troy did not yield. Achilles' son, Pyrrus, entered the fray, and the poisoned arrows of Philoctetes were brought to be used. With one of them Paris met his death. An oracle said that Troy would not fall as long as it had possesion of the Palladium, a sacred statue. Odysseus and Diomede resolved ...
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