A mythological figure who became the subject of tragedies, bearing his name, by Aeschylus (lost), Sophocles, Euripides (lost), and others (see phi 378, from which, Adler suggests, the present entry has been generated). Marooned on the island of Lemnos when his festering snakebite wound made it impossible for him to proceed to Troy. See generally OCD4 Philoctetes.