person
Philoctetes
also: son of Poeas, Poeantius heros
Son of Poeas, heir to Hercules' bow; abandoned on Lemnos with a festering snakebite, healed after many years and brought to Troy, where his arrows helped end the war.
Reading notes
- Letters from the Black Sea §1.3 Poeantian hero
Philoctetes, son of Poeas, whose festering snakebite was at last healed at Troy; Ovid likens his friend's words to that long-delayed cure.
- Ibis §8 son of Poeas
Philoctetes, heir of Hercules' bow, who suffered for years from a festering snakebite in his foot.
- Metamorphoses §9.251 the son of Poeas
Philoctetes, who lit Hercules's pyre and received his bow and arrows, fated to be needed again at Troy.
- Metamorphoses §13.386 son of Poeas
Philoctetes, heir to the bow of Hercules, marooned on Lemnos for his festering snakebite.
- The Cure for Love §4 the hero son of Poeas
Philoctetes, heir to Hercules' bow, left on Lemnos with a festering wound and healed only after many years — yet it was he who helped end the Trojan War.