Philoctetes
Born c. 1220 BCE
Archer left wounded on Lemnos in the Iliad, and said in the Odyssey to have come home safely.
Philoctetes is a Greek archer from legend and epic tradition.
This is a figure of legend or epic. The dates are estimates from the setting of the story, not historical facts.
- Known as
- Greek archer
- Category
- Legends & Epics
- Born
- c. 1220 BCE
From the same age of legend
- Aeneas Born c. 1220 BCE, Trojan hero
- Anticlea Died c. 1190 BCE, mother of Odysseus
- Diomedes Born c. 1220 BCE, Greek hero
- Helen of Troy Born c. 1220 BCE, epic heroine
- Machaon Born c. 1220 BCE, army healer
- Penelope Born c. 1220 BCE, epic heroine
Portrait: Unknown author, CC BY 2.5.
