Philoctetes
Publié le 22/02/2012
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Greek The most famous archer in
the Trojan War. The hero Heracles had bequeathed
his poisoned arrows to the archer. On the voyage to
Troy, Philoctetes was bitten by a venomous snake or,
some say, wounded by one of the poisoned arrows
and left on the island of Lemnos to die. But it had
been prophesied by an Oracle that Troy could not
be taken without Philoctetes. In the 10th year of
the siege of Troy, Odysseus sent for Philoctetes.
Philoctetes was brought to Troy, where his arrows
slew Paris, and Troy thereafter fell to the Greeks.