# Neoptolemus — Philoctetes character guide

> Neoptolemus in Philoctetes by Sophocles.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** Neoptolemus Son of Laertes, Neoptolemus The Atridae

**First appearance:** 0001-dramatis-personae

## Who they are

Young son of Achilles, torn between Odysseus' orders and his own conscience.

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