# Philoctetes — Tusculan Disputations character guide

> Philoctetes in Tusculan Disputations by Cicero.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Philoctetes

**First appearance:** 0001-tusculan-disputations

## Who they are

Greek hero with a festering wound; exemplar of suffering and endurance.

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