Talk:Philoctetes

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After the death of Paris, his brothers Diephobus and Helenus fight over Helen, and she is awarded to Diephobus. Helenus leaves Troy but is captured by Odysseus. Helenus, a seer, tells the Greeks that they need the weapons of Heracles in order to defeat Troy. These are in the possession of Philoctetes, who has been left behind on Lemnos. Odysseus retrieves Philoctetes and the requisite weapons, with which Philoctetes then kills Paris?!? Clarification please. I've read Napoli's book and I'm in love with it.

Added the references to Gide and to Wilson; and clarified that Neoptolomus appears in Sophocles' version of the myth. ---- Rick Lightburn, Jan. 20, 2006

parjury as cause of his rotten leg ?

can somebody bring an ancient source of this ? i wrote the same thing in the french page but i could find only Fénelon's Aventures of Telemacos as a source.

Spellings as in 'did you mean'?

Looking for Philoctetes and couldn't remember the correct spelling. How to provide more redirects for mispellings especially in difficult ones like this. I tried Philoctitese, Philocritese, Phyloctites, Pheloctitese. Is there a better vehicle than the talk page for providing mispellings to pull up the correct search.

kbanshee (talk) 05:21, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

Causality

In section stories, the first paragraph currently reads:

"Philoctetes was the son of King Poeas of the city of Meliboea in Thessaly. When Heracles wore the shirt of Nessus and built his funeral pyre, no one would light it for him except for Philoctetes or in other versions his father Poeas. Because of this, Philoctetes or Poeas is given Heracles' bow and poisoned arrows. This gained him the favor of the newly deified Heracles."

This sounds like Philoctetes gained Heracles' favor because he was given his bow and arrows. It seems more logical to assume he gained the favor because he was the only one willing to light the funeral pyre for Heracles that he gained his favor and was given the arc. I am no expert here so if someone feels confident about editing this I'd appreciate it. Arved Deecke (talk) 17:52, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Hitchens' epithet regarding JFK?

In the 9/11/11 New York Times, Bill Keller in his review of the latest set of essays by Christopher Hitchens quotes as an example of his vituperation, verbosity and rhetorical excess his calling President Kennedy a political failure, a moral bankrupt and a "suppurating Philocetetes". Call me Moe, call me Curly; call me Abbott, call me Costello; hell, call me a boorish illiterate idiot, but what the flying f--k is that supposed to mean?