 In Sophocles' "Philoctetes", Philoctetes was given Herakles' bow and arrow as reward for lighting the funeral pyre.In other versions, it is Poeas.According to Diodorus Siculus, Iolaus was sent by Heracles to Sardinia, together with nine of the sons that he had with the fifty daughters of Thespius (the Thespiades), to colonize the island, giving rise to the Iolei people .