03-23-2014, 05:31 PM
And Philoctetes, without whom Troy would not be taken. And others. In the Heroic Age, the bow is used by the heroes in their displays of courage and excellence. They hunt beasts and monsters with it, they kill enemy heroes with it, there are even arranged duels with bows, like the one in which Philoctetes killed Paris. Still, this concept of bow use is different in the classical era, when the Persians are the arch villain in Greek stories and the hoplite array speeds to engage the enemy in hand to hand combat.
