Sentence:  There is, I suggest, a typically <WSD>Achillean</WSD> joke at play here, a visual pun, displaying the phoenix as truly phoenix-ian in its exposure of its sex organs and at the same time snidely alluding to the Phoenicians' famed preoccupation with female genitalia. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Of or relating to (Achilles Tatius), a Roman-era Greek writer.