Philoctetes for ten years. Helenus, the prophetic son of King Priam of Troy, was forced to reveal, under torture, that one of the conditions of the Greeks' winning the war was that they needed the bow and arrows of Heracles. Upon hearing this, Odysseus and a group of men (usually including Diomedes) rushed back to Lemnos to recover Heracles' weapons. (As Sophocles writes it in his play named "Philoctetes", Odysseus is accompanied by Neoptolemus, Achilles' son, also known as Pyrrhus. Other versions of the myth don't include Neoptolemus.) Surprised to find the archer alive, the Greeks balked on what to do
Neoptolemus II of Epirus I. After initially agreeing to rule with each other as co-kings, Neoptolemus was killed at the behest of Pyrrhus. Neoptolemus II of Epirus Neoptolemus II (died 297 BC) was king of Epirus from 302 BC until his death in 297 BC. he was the son of king Alexander I of Epirus and Cleopatra of Macedonia, his maternal grandparents were Philip II of Macedon and Olympias. His maternal uncles included Alexander the Great and Philip III of Macedon. His maternal aunts included Thessalonike and Cynane. Neoptolemus came to the throne after the overthrow of his cousin Pyrrhus in 302 BC. However