Philoktetes
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Philoktetes was a Greek general and a member of the military expedition to Troy. He was the guardian of the magic bow and arrows of Heracles. On the way to Troy he is bitten by a snake on the island of Lemnos. The wound on is foot is so painful and debilitating that his military colleagues including his friend Odysseus abandon him on the deserted island. Ten years pass and the Greeks have made no progress against Troy. An oracle tells them that they can defeat Troy only if they have the magic bow of Heracles. Odysseus and Neoptolemus, son of the now dead Achilles journey to Lemnos to find the bow. The play begins at this point.
https://sites.google.com/site/johnjesurun/philoktetes-1993-2007
https://sites.google.com/site/johnjesurun/philoktetes-1993-2007
circa 2002;409 BCE
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