person
Philoctetes
also: Φιλοκτήτης
Son of Poeas, an Achaean archer at Troy reported by Nestor to have come home safely.
Reading notes
- The Iliad §2.441 Philoctetes
Son of Poeas, a celebrated Achaean archer left behind at Troy in later tradition; named in the Catalogue of Ships as leader of the men of Methone, though absent from the poem's own action.
- The Odyssey §3.148 Philoctetes
An Achaean archer at Troy, reported by Nestor to have reached home safely.
- The Odyssey §8.202 Philoctetes
The one archer Odysseus admits surpassed him with the bow at Troy.