 Although Neoptolemus is often depicted thus, the play "Philoctetes" by Sophocles shows him being a much kinder man, who honours his promises and shows remorse when he is made to trick Philoctetes.Two accounts deal with Neoptolemos' death.He was either killed after he attempted to take Hermione from Orestes as her father Menelaus promised, or after he denounced Apollo, the murderer of his father.