CLASSICS 370 Study Guide - Trojan War, Odysseus, Fot
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Lemnos: island where philoctetes was abandoned by odysseus. Odysseus: abandoned philoctetes on lemnos, fighting the trojans for 10 years, talks everyone into allowing him to get achilles" armor instead of ajax, convinces neoptolemus to steal philoctetes" magic bow and arrow. Neoptolemus: son of achilles, under odysseus" command, doesn"t want to lie to philoctetes just to get the bow and arrows, persuaded. Heracles: comes at the end of the play to convince philoctetes to go fight in the trojan war. Skyros: where achilles" mother tries to hide him to save him from an early death and lives disguised as a woman, where he meets deidameia. Helenus: forsees that the greeks can"t win the war without philoctetes and neoptolemus. Patroclus: achilles" close friend, borrows his armor just to rally the troops when the greeks begin to lose, gets carried away like achilles warned him not to do, killed by hector.
