Phoinix (son of Amyntor)

Briseis and Phoinix, red-figure kylix , around 490 BC Chr. , Louvre (G 152)

Phoinix (ancient Greek Φοῖνιξ Phoînix ) is an ancient mythological figure. He was a son of King Amyntor and his wife Cleobule . Other sources mention Hippodameia / Alkimede as mother.

Because Amyntor loved a concubine, Phoinix seduced his father's mistress at the instigation of his mother in order to dissuade her from him. When Amyntor cursed his son to be childless because of this, he fled to Phthia to Peleus . In another version, Amyntor robs his son of his eyesight as a punishment, which is given back to him by the centaur Cheiron after his escape to Peleus . Because of this, he is sometimes described as blind.

He took part in the Calydonian hunt and became Achilles ' tutor (alongside Cheiron), later he was his adviser. He drove to Skyros with Odysseus to induce Achilles to participate in the Trojan War . Before Troy , however, he was unsuccessful when, as a member of the Embassy (Presbeia), he tried to persuade Achilles to intervene again in the fight. He died on the way back from Troy with Neoptolemus , son of Achilles.

literature

• Gustav Türk : Phoinix 3 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 3.2, Leipzig 1909, Col. 2403-2409 ( digitized version ).

Web links

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Remarks

1. ^ Karl Tümpel : Alkimede 2. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswwissenschaft (RE). Volume I, 2, Stuttgart 1894, Col. 1540.
2. ↑ Homer : Iliad , Canto 9, verses 447-482.
3. ↑ Libraries of Apollodor 3,13,8 and Johannes Tzetzes , ad Lycophronem 421.
4. ↑ z. B. Aristophanes , Die Acharner 421 or Ovid, Ibis 257f.
5. ^ Ovid : Metamorphoses , Book 8, verse 307.
6. ↑ Homer: Iliad , Canto 9, verses 485–622.
7. ↑ Homer: Iliad , Canto 9, verse 432 ff.