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In Greek mythology, Phoenix (Ancient Greek: Φοῖνιξ Phoinix, gen. Φοίνικος Phoinikos ) was the son of king Amyntor . Because of a dispute with his father, Phoenix fled to Phthia , where he became king of the Dolopians , and tutor of the young Achilles , whom he accompanied to the Trojan War .
Phoenix from Guillaume Rouillé's Promptuarii Iconum Insigniorum. In Greek mythology, Phoenix or Phoinix (Ancient Greek: Φοῖνιξ Phoinix, gen.: Φοίνικος means "sun-red") was the eponym of Phoenicia who together with his brothers were tasked to find their abducted sister Europa.
A depiction of a phoenix by Friedrich Justin Bertuch (1806). The phoenix is a legendary immortal bird that cyclically regenerates or is otherwise born again. Originating in Greek mythology, it has analogs in many cultures, such as Egyptian and Persian mythology.
This is an index of lists of mythological figures from ancient Greek religion and mythology. List of Greek deities; List of mortals in Greek mythology; List of Greek legendary creatures; List of minor Greek mythological figures; List of Trojan War characters; List of deified people in Greek mythology; List of Homeric characters
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In Greek mythology, Thasus or Thasos (/ ˈ θ eɪ s ə s / or / ˈ θ eɪ z ə s /; Ancient Greek: Θάσος) was a son of Poseidon [1] (or, in other versions, Agenor, [2] Phoenix [3] or Cilix [4]). In the stories, he was a Phoenician prince and one of those who set out from Phoenicia in search of Europa (Thasus' sister [3]).
Long after Herodotus, the theme of the fire, pyre, and ashes of the dying bird, ultimately associated with the Greek phoenix, developed in Greek traditions. The name "phoenix" could be derived from "Bennu", and its rebirth and connections with the sun resemble the beliefs about Bennu; however, Egyptian sources do not mention a death of the deity.
'heroic, manly') [1] was in Greek mythology and history a Phoenician king of Tyre [2] or Sidon. The Greek historian Herodotus (c. 484–425 BC), born in the city of Halicarnassus under the Achaemenid Empire , estimated that Agenor lived either 1000 or 1600 years prior to his visit to Tyre in 450 BC at the end of the Greco-Persian Wars (499 ...