Herman Wilhelm Bissen: “Philoctetes” – Denmark – 1839

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Philoctetes (19th.cent) Herman Wilhelm Bissen (1798-1868), Danish sculptor.

Philoctetes was a Greek hero who participated in the Trojan War. En route to Troy he was incapacitated by a snakebite and was left behind on the island of Lemnos.