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Philoctetes' retrieval is the plot of Philoctetes, a play by Sophocles. Some sources portray Neoptolemus as brutal. He killed at least six on the field of battle [8] and several more during the subsequent fall of Troy ( Priam , Eurypylus , Polyxena , Polites and Astyanax (Hector and Andromache's infant son) among others).
Odysseus explains to Neoptolemus that he must perform a shameful action in order to garner future glory—to take Philoctetes by tricking him with a false story while Odysseus hides. Neoptolemus is portrayed as an honorable boy, and so it takes some persuading to get him to play this part.
Neoptolemus is Achilles ’s son and the one who accompanies Odysseus to Lemnos to retrieve Philoctetes and bring him to Troy. After the prophet Helenus prophesizes that the Trojan War cannot be won without both Philoctetes and Neoptolemus, Odysseus convinces Neoptolemus to go to Troy; however, Odysseus has a much tougher time convincing ...
In Sophocles’ play Philoctetes, the young Neoptolemus is riven by a complex set of competing impulses. Although the play is set during a point of time that preceded the young hero’s direct entry into the Trojan war, the future events loom large over the action.
Philoctetes sided with Neoptolemus about continuing to try to storm the city. They were the only two to think so because they had not had the war-weariness of the prior ten years. Afterward, Philoctetes was among those chosen to hide inside the Trojan Horse, and during the sack of the city he killed many famed Trojans.
Sep 7, 2009 · The prologue scene between Odysseus and Neoptolemus lays the foundations for the development of the dramatic crisis by portraying their fundamental disagreement as to the best means of bringing Philoctetes back to Troy, while the long first episode (219–675) depicts the evolution of the intense relationship between Philoctetes and the ...
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Although Philoctetes is generally considered the key figure of the play, as it revolves around his willingness to use his bow in the service of his enemies, Neoptolemus too is of great interest to many (modern) readers, as it is in him that we see the clearest case in extant tragedy of a decision rethought on moral grounds; Neoptolemus ...
