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MY Greek mythology is a bit rusty, but I know that Philoctetes was a famous archer who hid in the Trojan horse. Could his latter-day namesake get in touch with me direct? Mythological ...
Another famed Greek warrior, the archer Philoctetes, never got beyond Chryse; stopping off there on his way to Troy, Philoctetes was fatally bitten by a viper loosed on him, according to legend ...
Philoctetes is one of the more B-side Greek myths: essentially the story of a man who annoys his boss, commander Odysseus, and gets dumped on an island for ten years with a gammy leg, but ...
An ancient Greek play about the wounds of war is getting a new angle in A Female Philoctetes — a production made up of mostly Iraq and Afghanistan veterans. And I'm Robert Siegel. There's an ...