Philoctetes

Also known as: the son of Pœas · Family: mortal · Role: archer · First appears: Fable 78

Life events

• Philoctetes lights Hercules’s funeral pyre, and Hercules dies in the flames.(Fable78 · 📍 Œta)
  • With: Hercules
  • “Hercules, then, in obedience to a response of the oracle, which he consults, prepares a funeral pile, and laying himself upon it, his friend Philoctetes applies the torch to it, on which the hero, having first recounted his labours, expires in the flames.”
• Ulysses returns Philoctetes and Hercules’ arrows to the Greeks.(Fable99 · 📍 Lemnos)
  • With: Ulysses
  • “After he had carried them back to the Greeks, their owner attending too, the concluding hand was put, at length, to this protracted war.”

Fable 78

• parent: Pœas “Philoctetes was the son of Pœas.”
• friends with Hercules “his friend Philoctetes applies the torch to it”

Fable 99

• parent: Pœas “son of Pœas”
• with Ulysses (interaction) “still will I attempt {thee, and} will endeavour to bring thee back with me.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Made with Rho MD.