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Paris was mortally wounded in the Trojan war by Philoctetes.

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Paris was mortally wounded in the Trojan war by Philoctetes.

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The story of Philoctetes is in Sophocles' play Philoctetes (not in the Iliad).

Philoctetes had inherited Heracles' magical bow which according to a prophecy the Greeks needed in order to be able to conquer Troy. (Philoctetes' bow eventually killed Paris - one of the heroes who needed to be killed before the city could fall).

Since Philoctetes had been marooned on the island of Lemnos during the voyage to Troy (Philoctetes' had a septic wound, the Greeks could no longer stand the sight or the smell of it) Odysseus and Diomedes set out for Lemnos to persuade Philoctetes to lend his magical bow.

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Philoctetes is the son of king Poeas of Meliboea in Thessaly.

He was a skilled archer who participated in the Trojan War.

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