Phoenix wire of Amyntor
See also: Phoenix
In the Greek Mythology, Phoenix (in Greek old Φοῖνιξ / Phoĩnix ), wire of Amyntor, is, with the Centaure Chiron, the teacher of Achille.
Myth
Phoenix is a noble young person who must flee the anger of his father. This one indeed plugged it after his/her concubine wrongfully showed it to have tried to allure it. It takes refuge then at the court of Pélée. This last leads it to see Chiron, which returns the sight to him; it also makes its vassal by appointing it king of the Dolopes (people of Épire). Phoenix takes part in the hunting of the Sanglier of Calydon at the side of Shovelful.
After the birth of Achilles, Pélée entrusts education of it to him. Henri-Irenee Marrou, in his History of education in Antiquity (1948), calls this model that of the “Homeric knighthood”, and finds it very similar to the pre Carolingian Féodalité in Occident.
It takes also share, very old, with the Trojan War, but never returns in Greece: he dies on the road of the return, whereas he accompanied Néoptolème, wire of Achilles.
Phoenix in Iliade
Phoenix, “the old leader of tanks”, is one of the touching figures of Iliade . It appears with song IX, at the time of the embassy of Nestor, Ajax and Ulysses to convince Achille to take again the combat. He addresses himself to this one when the embassy failed, hoping to convince it by pointing out his childhood to him. Its speech illustrates the antiquated ideal of the education of the noble young person:
“You were only one child, and you still did not know anything the combat which does not save anybody, nor of the Councils where point out themselves the men. And it is for all that Pélée had dispatched me: I was to learn how to you to be at the same time a good teller of opinion, a good maker of exploits. ”
Achilles calls it “my good old man father” and testifies respect and affection to him. On its side, Phœnix reminds with emotion the education of the Péléide young person:
“And it is me which thus did to you what you are, similar Achille with the gods, by loving you of all my heart. As well you did not want yourself of the company of another, as it acted or to go to a feast or to eat at the house: was needed whereas I took to you on my knees, to cut you your meat, you in gaver, to approach you the wine of the lips. And that once you soaked the front of my tunic, by recrachant it, this wine! The children give great difficulty
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