Poeas
mythological figure · 2 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
father
in the texts
Philoctetes
Poeas is Philoctetes' father, invoked through ancestry and Philoctetes' longing for home.
O my son, boy whose father was Achilles, here I am before you, the man of whom you have perhaps heard as lord of the bow of Heracles, Philoctetes the son of Poeas.
and from there it will be no long journey for me to Oeta and the Trachinian heights, and fair-flowing Spercheius, so that you may show me to my beloved father, though long I have feared that he may have departed me.
It was here, child bred of the man who was the noblest of the Greeks, Neoptolemus son of Achilles, that I exposed long ago the native of Malis, Poeas’ son, on the express command of the two chieftains to do so, because his foot was all running with a gnawing disease.
Orations
Father of Philoctetes
So now, on an enterprise altogether perilous and difficult, I have come here to Lemnos, that I may bring Philoctetes and the bow of Heracles to my allies.