Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Poeas.
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Philoctetes (mythology)
Poeas' son inherits Heracles' bow — whether Poeas or Philoctetes lit the Oeta pyre, the father is the stem of the archer who takes Troy.
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Heracles
Apollodorus makes Poeas the passer-by who lights Heracles' funeral pyre on Mount Oeta and receives the hero's bow and arrows in return.
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Poeas
King of Meliboea (or Malis), Argonaut archer, father of Philoctetes — friend of Heracles at the pyre that ends the labours.
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Philoctetes
Sophocles
Sophocles' tragedy assumes the bow Poeas' house received from Heracles — the weapon the Greeks must reclaim from Lemnos.