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PHILOCTETES , in See also:Greek See also:legend, son of Poeas See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of the Malians of Mt See also:Oeta, one of the suitors of See also:Helen and a celebrated See also:hero of the Trojan See also:War. See also:Homer merely states that he was distinguished for his prowess with the See also:bow; that he was bitten by a snake on the See also:journey to See also:Troy and See also:left behind in the See also:island of See also:Lemnos; and that he subsequently returned See also:home in safety. These brief allusions were elaborated by the " cyclic " poets, and the adventures of Philoctetes formed the subject of tragedies by See also:Aeschylus, See also:Sophocles and See also:Euripides. In the later See also:form of the See also:story Philoctetes was the friend and See also:armour-See also:bearer of Heracles, who presented him with his bow and poisoned arrows as a See also:reward for kindling the See also:fire on Mt Oeta, on which the hero immolated himself. Philoctetes remained at Lemnos till the tenth See also:year of the war. An See also:oracle having declared that Troy could not be taken without the arrows of Heracles, See also:Odysseus and See also:Diomedes (or See also:Neoptolemus) were sent to fetch Philoctetes. On his arrival before Troy he was healed of his See also:wound by Machaon, and slew See also:Paris; shortly afterwards the See also:city was taken. On his return to his own See also:country, finding that a revolt had broken out against him, he again took See also:ship and sailed for See also:Italy, where he founded Petilia and Cremissa. He See also:fell fighting on the See also:side of a See also:band of Rhodian colonists against some later immigrants from Pallene in See also:Achaea. His See also:tomb and See also:sanctuary were shown at Macalla, on the See also:coast of Bruttium.
Of the Aeschylean and Euripidean tragedies only a few fragments remain; of the two by Sophocles, one is extant, the other, dealing with the fortunes of Philoctetes before Troy, is lost. Some See also:light is thrown upon the lost plays by Dio See also:Chrysostom, who in one of his discourses (52) describes his See also:reading of the three tragedies, and in another (59) gives a See also:prose version of the opening of the Philoctetes of Euripides. Philoctetes was also the subject of tragedies by Achaeus of See also:Eretria, See also:Euphorion of See also:Chalcis and the See also:Roman tragedian See also:Accius. According to F. See also:Marx (Neue Jahrbiicher See also:fur das klassische Altertum, 1904, p. 673-685), Philoctetes did not appear in the See also:original legend of Troy. He is a form of the Lemnian See also:Hephaestus, who alighted on the island when flung out of See also:Olympus by See also:Zeus. Like him, he is lame and an outcast for nine years; like him, he is brought back in See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of need. His connexion with the fall of Troy indicates that the fire-See also:god himself set fire to the city; in like manner no other than the fire-god was thought worthy to kindle the pyre of Heracles.
See Homer, Iliad, ii. 718, Odyssey, iii. 190, viii. 219; Sophocles, Philoctetes, and See also:Jebb's Introduction; Diod. Sic. iv. 38; See also:Philostratus, Heroica, 6; See also:Strabo vi. 254; See also:Hyginus, Fab. 36, 102.
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