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- Neoptolemus recounts the story Odysseus has ordered him to tell, and Philoctetes in turn tells Neoptolemus that he was marooned on Lemnos by Odysseus and his men after he was bitten by a snake on the island of Chryse.
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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 ...
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Neoptolemus tells Philoctetes that he must sail to Troy to help the Greeks win the Trojan War, which is where they will be going when they leave Lemnos. Philoctetes claims that Neoptolemus has deceived him and swears that he will never go to Troy, not after the Greeks have treated him so badly.
Odysseus tells Neoptolemus, the son of Achilles, that this island is where Odysseus and his crew marooned Philoctetes, the son of Poeas, at the behest of his superiors. The wound on Philoctetes’s foot had been “oozing with pus,” and his constant screams of pain disrupted their prayers and offerings to the gods.
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).
Nov 22, 2019 · Philoctetes tells Neoptolemus that he has a noble nature, true to his father, Achilles. The young Greek warrior is beside himself and he finally tells Philoctetes that he must return to Troy and join the Greeks.
- Donald L. Wasson
Neoptolemus must tell Philoctetes truly who he is—but must pretend that he has quarrelled with the Greeks at Troy, for depriving him of his father's arms, and is sailing home to Greece. The youth at first refuses to utter such a falsehood; but yields at last to the argument that otherwise he cannot take Troy.
Eventually Neoptolemus must tell Philoctetes the truth -- that he must join the Atridae (the sons of Atreus: Menelaus and Agamemnon) in the Trojan War. Neoptolemus refuses to give him back his bow. When the "shabby slit-eyed" Odysseus appears (236), Philoctetes wants to kill himself.
