Philoctetes

In Greek mythology, a renowned archer to whom the hero Heracles bequeathed his poisoned arrows, and the slayer of the Trojan prince Paris before the fall of Troy.

On his journey to the Trojan wars, Philoctetes was either bitten by a serpent or injured by one of his arrows, and was abandoned on Lemnos because of the intolerable smell of his wound. Ten years later, when the Greeks learned that their success depended on the arrows of Heracles, he was rescued by Odysseus and Neoptolemus. On arrival he was cured by Machaon or Podalirus, sons of Asclepius, god of medicine, and subsequently shot Paris with one of his lethal arrows. His story was dramatized by the Greek tragedian Sophocles.