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Sunday, July 8, 2012

Philoctetes and Ercole

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The Latin poet Martial (second half of the first century) echoes a tradition according to which the hero Philoctetes was the eromenos of Ercole.

In the epic, Philoctetes is the heir and keepr of Ercole's bows and arrows.

Cfr. Sofocle's Filoctete.

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