Philoctetes

English > Greek (Woodhouse)

Φιλοκτήτης, -ου, ὁ, or say, son of Poeas.

Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)

Phĭloctētēs¹⁶ (-ta), æ, m. (Φιλοκτήτης), Philoctète [héritier de l’arc et des flèches d’Hercule, abandonné dans l’île de Lemnos à cause d’une blessure fétide] : Cic. Tusc. 2, 19 ; Fato 37 || -tæus, a, um, de Philoctète : Cic. Fin. 2, 94.

Wikipedia EN

Philoctetes (Ancient Greek: Φιλοκτήτης Philoktētēs; English pronunciation: /ˌfɪləkˈtiːtiːz/, stressed on the third syllable, -tet-), or Philocthetes, according to Greek mythology, was the son of Poeas, king of Meliboea in Thessaly, and Demonassa or Methone. He was a Greek hero, famed as an archer, and a participant in the Trojan War.

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Philoctetes (Ancient Greek: Φιλοκτήτης, Philoktētēs; English pronunciation: /ˌfɪləkˈtiːtiːz/, stressed on the third syllable, -tet-) is a play by Sophocles (Aeschylus and Euripides also each wrote a Philoctetes but theirs have not survived). The play was written during the Peloponnesian War. It is one of the seven extant tragedies by Sophocles. It was first performed at the City Dionysia in 409 BC, where it won first prize. The story takes place during the Trojan War (after the majority of the events of the Iliad, but before the Trojan Horse). It describes the attempt by Neoptolemus and Odysseus to bring the disabled Philoctetes, the master archer, back to Troy from the island of Lemnos.