Phoenix
Also known as: ancient Phoenix · Family: The Greeks · Role: foster-father · First appears: Book III · Part 4
Phoenix recalls that Peleus welcomed him, made him lord of the Dolopians, and entrusted the infant Achilles to him to raise as his own child. In Book VII, Phoenix embraced and kissed Neoptolemus, greeting him as “Hail, goodly son of that Achilles whom I nursed a little one in mine own arms”. In Book IX, he went with Neoptolemus to his father’s ships, sighing for the dead.
Relationship record
Life events
- Phoenix recalls that Peleus welcomed him and made him lord of the Dolopians.(Book III · Part 4)
- “Till Peleus welcomed me with gifts, and lord Of his Dolopians made me.”
- Phoenix recalls how Peleus entrusted the infant Achilles to him to foster as his own child.(Book III · Part 4)
- “Thee through his halls one day he bare, and set Upon my knees, and bade me foster thee, His babe, with all love, as mine own dear child:”
- Phoenix embraced and kissed Neoptolemus, greeting him as Achilles' son.(Book VII · Part 4)
- With: Neoptolemus
- “So kissed he Neoptolemus' head and breast, Clasping him round, and cried in rapture of joy: “Hail, goodly son of that Achilles whom”
Book III · Part 4
- pupil: Achilles “Thee through his halls one day he bare, and set Upon my knees, and bade me foster thee, His babe, with all love, as mine own dear child:”
Book VII · Part 4
- with Achilles (Phoenix says he nursed Achilles as a child.) “Hail, goodly son of that Achilles whom I nursed a little one in mine own arms”
- with Neoptolemus (interaction) “He clasped him round as father claspeth son Whom, after long and troublous wanderings, The Gods bring home to gladden a father's heart.”
- pupil: Achilles “Hail, goodly son of that Achilles whom / I nursed a little one in mine own arms”
Book IX · Part 1
- with Neoptolemus (Phoenix accompanies Achilles’ son.) “And to his father's ships passed swiftly thence: With him went Myrmidon warriors two and ten, And white-haired Phoenix followed on with these Woefully sighing for the glorious dead.”
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