Philoctetes

Philoctetes, a famous archer, the friend and armour-bearer of Hercules, who bequeathed him his bow and poisoned arrows. As one of the suitors of Helen, he led seven ships against Troy; but being bitten in the foot by a snake (or, according to one story, wounded by his own arrows), he fell ill. As his wound gave forth an unendurable stench, the Greeks left him on the island of Lemnos, where for ten years he spent a miserable life. But an oracle declared that Troy could not be taken without the arrows of Hercules, so Ulysses and Neoptolemus were despatched to bring Philoctetes to the Greek camp; where, healed by Æsculapius or his sons, the restored hero slew Paris, and helped powerfully in the taking of Troy. After the war he settled in Italy. A play of Sophocles is named from him.