
	Where results make sense

Topic: Philoctetes

Related Topics

Neoptolemus

Trojan War

Paris (mythology)

Corythus

Herakles

Eurypylus

Helen

Menelaus

Deiphobus

Priam

Judgement of Paris

Odysseus

Heracles

Meliboea

Iliad

In the News (Fri 27 Nov 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	Philoctetes - Home
		All Philoctetes events are free and open to the public.
		The pain is so extreme and the wound so foul smelling that Philoctetes is exiled to the island of Lemnos...
		PHILOCTETES CENTER (TM), the Bow-and-Arrow Design (TM), THE MULTIDISCIPLINARY STUDY OF IMAGINATION (TM) and DIALOG (TM) are trademarks of The Philoctetes Center for the Multidisciplinary Study of Imagination.
	www.philoctetes.org (648 words)

	Philoctetes - LoveToKnow 1911
		PHILOCTETES, in Greek legend, son of Poeas king of the Malians of Mt Oeta, one of the suitors of Helen and a celebrated hero of the Trojan War.
		In the later form of the story Philoctetes was the friend and armour-bearer of Heracles, who presented him with his bow and poisoned arrows as a reward for kindling the fire on Mt Oeta, on which the hero immolated himself.
		Philoctetes was also the subject of tragedies by Achaeus of Eretria, Euphorion of Chalcis and the Roman tragedian Accius.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Philoctetes (454 words)

	Philoctetes
		The legend of Philoctetes was related at length in the Trojan Cycle.
		While Philoctetes was in doubt as to his course, the Trojans arrived, and endeavoured to persuade him to reject the overtures of the Greeks.
		Philoctetes is still obdurate, and affairs appear to have reached a dead-lock, when suddenly Hercules descends from heaven, and commands obedience to the will of the gods.
	www.theatredatabase.com /ancient/sophocles_009.html (1145 words)

	Philoctetes, Greek Mythology Link - www.maicar.com
		Philoctetes, who is counted among the ARGONAUTS, among the SUITORS OF HELEN, among the ACHAEAN LEADERS, and among those who hid inside the WOODEN HORSE, is the archer who inherited the bow and arrows of Heracles 1.
		Philoctetes contributed with seven warships to the alliance, but he did not reach Troy until much later, being replaced as chief by Medon 1, son of Oileus 1 and Rhene 1, and therefore brother of Ajax 2, according to some reports.
		Still others affirm that the snake struck Philoctetes in the island of Lemnos, and that it was Hera who sent it against him, the reason being that Philoctetes alone had dared to build the funeral pyre of Heracles 1, whom Hera disliked for being the living proof of her husband's love affair with Alcmena.
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/Philoctetes.html (1616 words)

	Philoctetes Guide
		Background: Philoctetes' father was given the bow of Heracles because he alone lit that hero's funeral pyre.
		Philoctetes inherited this bow, and became a master archer.
		The stench and Philoctetes' constant cries of pain drove the Greeks to decide to abandon him on an island while he slept.
	www.temple.edu /CLASSICS/philoctetes.html (517 words)

	Philoctetes (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Philoctetes, produced in 409 bce, is said to be Sophocles' second-to-last play before Oedipus at Colonus, a play to which it bears resemblance.
		Philoctetes had received the bow as a reward for lighting Heracles' funeral pyre; a prophecy claims it is needed against Troy now.
		Philoctetes will not relent, and his "final refusal is the refusal of a man so wounded as to be unwilling to resume normal life itself because, with that life, will come new and unpredictable suffering.
	www.wsu.edu /~delahoyd/philoctetes.html (490 words)

	Sophocles' Philoctetes
		Neoptolemus persuades Philoctetes that he too is a foe of the Greeks, since Achilles' arms were refused to him.
		But Philoctetes is unpersuaded, reminds Neoptolemus of their grievances against the Greeks, and enjoins.
		The story of Philoctetes was first told in the Homeric cycle, in the Cypria and in the Little Iliad of Lesches.
	classics.uc.edu /~johnson/tragedy/summaries/philoctetes.html (485 words)

	PHILOCTETES - Online Information article about PHILOCTETES
		These brief allusions were elaborated by the " cyclic " poets, and the adventures of Philoctetes formed the subject of tragedies by See also:
		Philoctetes remained at Lemnos till the tenth See also:
		Philoctetes was also the subject of tragedies by Achaeus of See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /PER_PIG/PHILOCTETES.html (641 words)

	Theatre Studies -- Philoctetes as a Biblical Prophet (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Philoctetes is the inheritor of the great bow and poisoned arrows of his friend Heracles, the son of Zeus, who now is a god in his own right.
		Philoctetes erred by stepping on sacred ground, although the sin was purely in ignorance.
		Philoctetes, therefore, receives suffering not at the hands of abstract gods, as he thinks, but from prideful men who pursue selfish ends and quick answers when they should seek the will of the divine.
	theatrestudies.tripod.com /Criticism/Plays/Philoctetes.html (2334 words)

	Philoctetes
		On Odysseus' advice and at the order of the Atreidae, he was left behind on the island of Lemnos, where he spent ten long years in sufferance and loneliness.
		When they returned at Troy, Philoctetes' wound was healed by Asclepius (or Machaon).
		By killing Paris, Philoctetes accelerated the downfall of Troy.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/p/philoctetes.html (217 words)

	Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Philoctetes' homeland and parentage are mentioned in several places, most notably Homer's Iliad, Apollodorus' Library and also in The Epitome.
		Another version, found in Pausanias' Description of Greece says that the serpent was the tutelary snake of the nymph Chryse, and that Philoctetes had violated the sanctity of her shrine, and that these events took place on an island named eponymously for the nymph.
		The description of the men and ships Philoctetes led and their fate after his incident with the snake are described in The Catalogue of Ships in Homer's Iliad.
	enigmastation.com /~cislyn/classics/philoctetes/bibliography.html (484 words)

	3345.Phil.html
		Philoctetes, who was in the fleet of Agamemnon with his seven ships, would be the guide.
		When Philoctetes approached he was bitten in the foot by a serpent.
		The wound did not heal, and Philoctetes' cries of pain made it impossible for the Greeks to perform the religious rites, during which there should not be any ill-omened sounds.
	www.hfac.uh.edu /mcl/classics/3345/3345.Phil.html (1121 words)

	Philoctetes
		On the voyage, while the Greeks were searching for Troy, Philoctetes was bitten on the heal by a snake.
		As the Greeks continued their voyage, the smell from Philoctetes' wound, as well as his constant complaining, began to annoy the Greeks.
		Philoctetes was understandably upset, and despised the Greeks, especially Odysseus, for abandoning him.
	dante.udallas.edu /hutchison/Trojan_War/Greeks/philoctetes.htm (287 words)

	PHILOCTETES. The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		On his way to the Trojan War, Philoctetes was bitten by a snake.
		When an oracle declared that Troy could not be taken without the weapons of Hercules, Philoctetes was brought to Troy by Neoptolemus (or Diomedes) and Odysseus.
		Sophocles’; drama Philoctetes is based on the efforts of Neoptolemus and Odysseus to bring Philoctetes to Troy.
	www.bartleby.com /aol/65/ph/Philocte.html (99 words)

	Chicken: Soldiers and Sailors: Power and Class in the Philoctetes
		It is my contention that the Philoctetes is at its heart about this shift in power from the landed, hoplite ruling class and its characteristics—as represented by Philoctetes and his generation—to the "sailor" underclass and unscrupulous sophistic politicians—as represented by Odysseus—who sought to profit from this new order.
		Philoctetes for his part recognizes the nature of the enemy, who "hopes by his cajoling words to bring me and display me" (630) "as though he were bringing a strong man he had taken by force" (945).
		Philoctetes of course laments the failure of the aristocratic, martial values of the heroic age—the Gods, he says, delight in preserving from death cunning and villainy while righteousness and valor (chrēsta, 451) perish.
	www.camws.org /meeting/2005/abstracts2005/chicken.html (546 words)

	Philoctetes — FactMonster.com
		On his way to the Trojan War, Philoctetes was bitten by a snake.
		Philoctetes - Philoctetes The most famous archer in the Trojan war, to whom Hercules, at death, gave his arrows.
		Paris, in Greek mythology - Paris Paris or Alexander,in Greek mythology, son of Priam and Hecuba and brother of Hector.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/ent/A0838807.html (196 words)

	program notes, Cocteau Theater's The Cure at Troy
		Philoctetes possesses Hercules' bow which propels its arrows to the heart of its targets.
		Ten years earlier, Ulysses had dumped Philoctetes on Lemnos because of a wound--a stinking, oozing, open wound on his foot resulting from a snakebite that Philoctetes suffered when he violated the boundaries of a holy shrine.
		Philoctetes abhors Ulysses for abandoning him, and so Ulysses orders the young Neoptolemus to exercise his sophistry to convince Philoctetes to return to Troy, while he waits on the shore.
	www.dickinson.edu /~johnston/Cure.html (626 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)