Phoenix

Family: Achaeans · Role: old knight · First appears: BOOK IX

🌐 Also appears in: Greek Mythology — A Family Orrery (as Phoenix)

Life events

• Agamemnon sends Phoenix, Ajax, and Ulysses to persuade Achilles to return to battle.(BOOK IX)
  • With: Agamemnon Ajax son of Telamon Ulysses Achilles
  • “Let Phoenix, dear to Jove, lead the way; let Ajax and Ulysses follow”
• Achilles invites Phoenix to remain and sail home with him, without forcing him.(BOOK IX)
  • With: Achilles
  • “As for Phoenix, let him sleep here that he may sail with me in the morning if he so will. But I will not take him by force.”
• Phoenix fled his father’s house and was welcomed by Peleus in Phthia.(BOOK IX · 📍 Phthia)
  • With: Achilles
  • “I then fled through Hellas till I came to fertile Phthia, mother of sheep, and to King Peleus, who made me welcome and treated me as a father treats an only son”

BOOK IX

• patron: Peleus “I then fled through Hellas till I came to fertile Phthia, mother of sheep, and to King Peleus, who made me welcome and treated me as a father treats an only son who will be heir to all his wealth. He made me rich and set me over much people”
• pupil: Achilles “he sent me with you to train you in all excellence of speech and action”
• parent: Amyntor “I was then flying the anger of father Amyntor, son of Ormenus”
• ward: Achilles “Your father Peleus bade me go with you when he sent you as a mere lad from Phthia to Agamemnon”
• friends with Achilles “It was I, Achilles, who had the making of you; I loved you with all my heart”

BOOK XVII

• with Minerva (interaction) “First she took the form and voice of Phoenix and spoke to Menelaus son of Atreus”

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