 According to Quintus Smyrnaeus, Odysseus and Diomedes came to Scyros to bring him to the war at Troy.According to the Epic Cycle, Odysseus and Phoenix did this.The Achaean seer Calchas prophesied that Philoctetes (whom the Achaeans had abandoned on the island of Lemnos due to the vile odour from snakebite) and the bow of Heracles are needed to take Troy.