Back to photostream

Philoctetes, hero of Greek Mythology, famed as an archer, and a participant in the Trojan War, Archaeological Museum of Vravrona (or Brauron), Attica, Greece

Philoctetes, héroe de la mitología griega, famoso como arquero y participante en la guerra de Troya, Museo Arqueológico de Vravrona (o Brauron), Ática, Grecia

 

Φιλοκτήτης, ήρωας της Ελληνικής Μυθολογίας, φημισμένος ως τοξότης και συμμετέχων στον Τρωικό πόλεμο, Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο Βραυρώνας, Αττική

 

Filoktites, Φιλοκτήτης, Philoctetes

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philoctetes

 

A marble slab from Merenda (before the middle of the 2nd century B.C)

The slab depicts the stealing of the weapons of the homeric hero Philoctetes, who according to Euripides had been abandoned in Lemnos.

Philoctetes rather old and ill is represented in a bent position inside a cave. At the background behind the cave’s entrance two male heads are visible. The first one with a thick beard and a conical pilos is identified as Odysseus. The other one with the thick hair styled in locks, and a beard, possibly Diomedes, dispossesses Philoctetes of his weapons.

 

1,942 views
25 faves
0 comments
Uploaded on May 25, 2013
Taken on October 27, 2011