Philoctetes

"Locrians of Narycos her towns contain. / There fierce Idomeneus from Crete brought o'er / his troops to vex the Sallentinian plain; / there, girt with walls and guarded by the power / of Philoctetes, stands Petelia's tiny tower."

There is Philoctetes, the Spartan, a grim, black-bearded man in the prime of life, who won the dolichos at the last Olympiad.