 According to Little Iliad, Odysseus wanted to sail home with the bow but Diomedes refused to leave Philoctetes behind.Heracles (now a god) or Athena then persuaded Philoctetes to join the Achaeans again (with the promise that he will be healed) and he agreed to go with Diomedes.The bow of Heracles and the poisoned arrows were used by Philoctetes to slay Paris; this was a requirement to the fall of Troy.