Question
The Little Iliad tells how this hero was retrieved from the island of Lemnos by Diomedes after being exiled there for 10 years. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this famed archer who fought in the Trojan War.
ANSWER: Philoctetes
[10e] Philoctetes was exiled to Lemnos on the advice of this wise king of Ithaca, whose own journey home from the Trojan War is the subject of an epic by Homer.
ANSWER: Odysseus [or Ulysses]
[10m] In most tellings, Philoctetes was exiled to Lemnos after being wounded in this manner. Orpheus’s wife Eurydice was also killed in this manner.
ANSWER: snakebite [or descriptions of being bitten by a snake; prompt on answers describing poisoning by asking “how were they poisoned?”]
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Summary
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