Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Phoenix.
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WORK · Phoenician eponymREAD MORE ↗
Phoenix (son of Agenor)
Son of Agenor and Telephassa, brother of Cadmus and Europa — the eponym who gives his name to Phoenicia; carefully distinct from Phoenix son of Amyntor, Achilles' tutor.
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Phoenicia
The Levantine coast named for Phoenix in Greek ethnography — the brother's search for Europa fossilized as a place-name.
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Agenor
Phoenix's father — the king who sends his sons to find Europa and thereby seeds Cadmus' Thebes and Phoenicia's name.
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Europa
Phoenix's sister — the princess Zeus carries to Crete; her brothers' failed search becomes the foundation myth of Phoenicia and Thebes.