Philoctetes Greek The most famous archer in the Trojan War.
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Philoctetes 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.
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