 This retrieval is the plot of "Philoctetes", a play by Sophocles.Euripides, in his play "Hekabe" (also known as "Hecuba"), has a moving scene (ll 566–575) which shows Neoptolemos as a compassionate young man who kills Polyxena, Hekabe's daughter with ambivalent feelings and in the least painful way.Neoptolemos was held by some to be brutal.