Definition of Philoctetes. Meaning of Philoctetes. Synonyms of Philoctetes

Here you will find one or more explanations in English for the word Philoctetes. Also in the bottom left of the page several parts of wikipedia pages related to the word Philoctetes and, of course, Philoctetes synonyms and on the right images related to the word Philoctetes.

Definition of Philoctetes

No result for Philoctetes. Showing similar results...

Meaning of Philoctetes from wikipedia

- Sophocles' Philoctetes is the only one that has survived. Sophocles' Philoctetes at Troy, Aeschylus' Philoctetes and Euripides' Philoctetes have all been...
- funeral pyre while still alive. In the play Philoctetes, Sophocles references the myth in which no one but Philoctetes would light Heracles' funeral pyre, and...
- by Dio Chrysostom of Euripides' Philoctetes with Aeschylus' Philoctetes (probably 470s BCE) and Sophocles' Philoctetes (409 BCE). In addition, portions...
- father Agamemnon's murder by Clytemnestra and Aegisthus. Philoctetes retells the story of Philoctetes, an archer who had been abandoned on Lemnos by the rest...
- Philoctetes is a figure in Gr**** mythology. Philoctetes may also refer to: Philoctetes (Aeschylus play) Philoctetes (Euripides play) Philoctetes (Sophocles...
- Heracles' bow, which was with Philoctetes in Lemnos. Odysseus and Diomedes retrieved Philoctetes, whose wound had healed. Philoctetes then shot and killed Paris...
- Skyros. The two then went to Lemnos to retrieve Philoctetes (years earlier, on the way to Troy, Philoctetes had been bitten by a snake on Chryse Island)...
- action, Philoctetes or Poeas received Heracles's bow and arrows, which were later needed by the Gr****s to defeat Troy in the Trojan War. Philoctetes confronted...
- The Wounded Philoctetes is a painting by the Danish painter, N. A. Abildgaard. It was painted in 1775. Having received a five-year scholarship from the...
- Chrysostom of the Aeschylus' Philoctetes with Euripides' Philoctetes (431 BCE) and Sophocles' Philoctetes (409 BCE). Philoctetes is mentioned briefly in Homer's...