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== Mythology == Phoenix was the son of [[Amyntor (son of Ormenus)|Amyntor]].<ref>Parada, s.v. Phoenix 2; [[Homer]], ''[[Iliad]]'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg001.perseus-eng1:9.417-9.452 9.448]; [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:3.13.8 3.13.8].</ref> A dispute with his father, concerning his father's concubine, resulted in Phoenix fleeing his homeland for [[Phthia]], where he became a vassal of [[Achilles]]' father [[Peleus]], the king.<ref>Hard, [https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA458 p. 458]; Tripp, p. 477. See [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''[[Fabulae]]'' 257, which includes Peleus and Phoenix in a list of close friends.</ref> As told in the ''[[Iliad]]'',<ref>[[Homer]], ''[[Iliad]]'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg001.perseus-eng1:9.417-9.452 9.451β457].</ref> on the urgings of his jealous mother (variously named as [[Cleobule]], [[Hippodamia (mythology)|Hippodameia]], or [[Alcimede (Greek myth)|Alcimede]]), Phoenix had had sex with his father's concubine.<ref>Gantz, p. 618; Grimal, s.v. Phoenix 3; Smith [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0104%3Aalphabetic+letter%3DP%3Aentry+group%3D27%3Aentry%3Dphoenix-bio-2 s.v. Phoenix 2]. For Cleobule, see [[Tzetzes]] on [[Lycophron]] [https://archive.org/stream/isaakioukaiiann00mlgoog#page/n659/mode/2up 421]; [[Tzetzes]], ''Allegories of the Iliad'' Prologomena 432, 524, pp. 33, 41. For Hippodamia, see the A scholia to Iliad 9.448 (cited by Gantz). For Alcimede see ''[[Palatine Anthology]]'' 3.3 (Paton, [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/greek_anthology_3/2014/pb_LCL067.153.xml pp. 152–153]).</ref> Amyntor, discovering this, called upon the [[Erinyes]] to curse Phoenix with childlessness. In later accounts of the story, Phoenix was falsely accused by Amyntor's concubine, and blinded by his father, but [[Chiron]] restored his sight.<ref>[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:3.13.8 3.13.8], probably drawing on Euripides' ''Phoenix'', see Gantz, p. 618; Frazer's [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:3.13.8 note 3] to Apollodorus, 3.13.8.</ref> In either case, Phoenix fled to Phthia, where Peleus made Phoenix a king of the Dolopians, and gave him his young son Achilles to raise.<ref>Hard, [https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA458 p. 458]; [[Homer]], ''[[Iliad]]'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg001.perseus-eng1:9.453-9.491 9.479β491].</ref> Phoenix participated in the [[Calydonian boar hunt]],<ref>Tripp, p. 478; Parada, s.v. Phoenix 2; Smith, [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0104%3Aalphabetic+letter%3DP%3Aentry+group%3D27%3Aentry%3Dphoenix-bio-2 s.v. Phoenix 2]; [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''[[Fabulae]]'' 173; [[Ovid]], ''[[Metamorphoses]]'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:latinLit:phi0959.phi006.perseus-eng1:8.260-8.364 8.307].</ref> and was said to have given Achilles's son the name [[Neoptolemus]].<ref>Gantz, p. 581; [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0525.tlg001.perseus-eng1:10.26.4 10.26.4] = ''[[Cypria]]'' fr. 19 West, [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/greek_epic_fragments_trojan_cycle_cypria/2003/pb_LCL497.99.xml pp. 98–99].</ref> As an old man, he went with [[Odysseus]] and [[Nestor (mythology)|Nestor]] to find and recruit Achilles for the [[Trojan War]],<ref>Gantz, pp. 581–582; Tripp, p. 478; Scholia (D) ''Iliad'' 19.326 = ''[[Cypria]]'' fr. 19 West, [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/greek_epic_fragments_trojan_cycle_cypria/2003/pb_LCL497.97.xml pp. 96–99]. Compare with [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''[[Fabulae]]'' 96; [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:3.13.8 3.13.8].</ref> and was Achilles's companion at Troy.<ref>[[Homer]], ''[[Iliad]]'', [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg001.perseus-eng1:9.162-9.204 9.165–169], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg001.perseus-eng1:9.205-9.243 9.220–224], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg001.perseus-eng1:9.417-9.452 9.427–622], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg001.perseus-eng1:16.155-16.199 16.194], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg001.perseus-eng1:17.543-17.566 17.555–561], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg001.perseus-eng1:19.309-19.348 19.309–313], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg001.perseus-eng1:23.351-23.387 23.359–361]; [[Ovid]], ''[[Heroides]]'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:latinLit:phi0959.phi002.perseus-eng1:3 3.27–29], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:latinLit:phi0959.phi002.perseus-eng1:3 3.127–130]; [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:3.13.8 3.13.8].</ref> After Achilles, in his anger at [[Agamemnon]], had withdrawn from the fighting, Phoenix was part of the unsuccessful embassy sent by Agamemnon to persuade Achilles to return to the battle.<ref>Hard, [https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA463 pp. 463–464]; Gantz, p. 613; [[Homer]], ''[[Iliad]]'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg001.perseus-eng1:9.162-9.204 9.165–169]; [[Ovid]], ''[[Heroides]]'', [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:latinLit:phi0959.phi002.perseus-eng1:3 3.27–29], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:latinLit:phi0959.phi002.perseus-eng1:3 3.127–130]; [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg002.perseus-eng1:e.4.3 E.4.3].</ref> After Achilles died, Phoenix was one of those sent to fetch Neoptolemus from [[Scyros]].<ref>Gantz, p. 640; [[Sophocles]], ''[[Philoctetes (Sophocles play)|Philoctetes]]'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0011.tlg006.perseus-eng1:343-390 343–344], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0011.tlg006.perseus-eng1:557-590 557–567]; [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg002.perseus-eng1:e.5.10 E.5.10–11]; [[Philostratus the Younger]], ''[[Imagines (work by Philostratus)|Imagines]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/philostratus_younger-imagines_1_achilles_scyros_pyrrhus_scyros/1931/pb_LCL256.293.xml 394 K 6]. Neoptolemus, with Phoenix and Odysseus, are depicted leaving Skyros on a 5th-century BC vase ([[Ferrara]] 44701), see Gantz, p. 640; Beazley Archive [http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/63AA7C6F-F89B-4183-841C-D56B87602CA1 206070]; ''[[Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae|LIMC]]'' [http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-7400f8c829b8c-b 6591].</ref> On his way home from Troy, Phoenix died and was buried by Neoptolemus.<ref>Tripp, p. 478; Grimal, p. 370; [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg002.perseus-eng1:e.6.12 E.6.12].</ref> His tomb was said to be either in [[Eion]], [[Macedonia (ancient kingdom)|Macedonia]], or in [[Trachis]], [[Thessaly]], nearby the "Phoenix River" which was said to have been named after the hero.<ref>Smith, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0104%3Aalphabetic+letter%3DP%3Aentry+group%3D27%3Aentry%3Dphoenix-bio-2 s.v. Phoenix 2] (citing [[Tzetzes]] on Lycophron [https://archive.org/stream/isaakioukaiiann00mlgoog#page/n657/mode/2up 417] and Strabo ix p. 428); [[Strabo]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0099.tlg001.perseus-eng1:9.4.14 9.4.14] (tomb near Phoenix River).</ref>
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