Philoctetes

Synopsis

Philoctetes is a greek tragedy written by sophocles in the 5th century bc. The plot revolves around the mythological hero philoctetes, who was abandoned on the island of lemnos by his fellow greeks after being bitten by a snake. Philoctetes possesses the bow and arrows of the famous hero heracles, which are essential to winning the trojan war. The greeks realize they need philoctetes and send odysseus and neoptolemus to retrieve him. However, philoctetes is filled with anger and resentment towards the greeks for abandoning him and refuses to help them.