"Greeks Bearing Gifts" is the seventh episode of the first series of the British science fiction television series Torchwood, which was originally broadcast on the digital television channel BBC Three
The alien reveals herself to Tosh.
Philoctetes
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Philoctetes, or Philocthetes, according to Greek mythology, was the son of Poeas, king of Meliboea in Thessaly, and Demonassa or Methone. He was a Greek hero, famed as an archer, and a participant in
Greeks Bearing Gifts (Torchwood)
…explicit intentions for Toshiko. The two spend the night together. The next day, Toshiko asks Mary her true identity but she remains coy, answering "Philoctetes", the name of an archer from Greek mythology who was exiled on an island. Toshiko wears the pendant in a crowded street, and though overwhelmed with…
Philoctetes at Lemnos, on an Attic red-figure lekythos, ca. 420 BC (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
The isolation of Philoctetes on Lemnos, as painted by Jean-Charles-Joseph Rémond (1818)
Philoctetes wearing a pilos cap on a bronze coin of Homolium, with a coiled serpent on the reverse (350 BC)
Philoctetes hunting for sustenance on Lemnos, oil painting by Pierre Cabanel (1838–1918)