Phoenix (son of Agenor)

In Greek mythology, Phoenix (Ancient Greek: Φοῖνιξ) was a son of Agenor and Telephassa (or ArgiopeHyginus, Fabulae, 6 & 178), brother of Cadmus, Cilix and Europa.
When Europa was carried off by Zeus, her three brothers were sent out by Agenor to find her, but the search was unsuccessful. Phoenix eventually settled in a country in Africa which he named Phoenicia after himself.Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3. 1. 1Hyginus, Fabulae, 178
Phoenix was believed to have fathered a number of children with different women. By Cassiopeia, he had a daughter CarmeAntoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses, 40 and a son Atymnius;Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 2. 178 by Alphesiboea, he had Adonis.Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, 3. 14. 4 According to the Iliad, Europa was not his sister, but his daughter.Homer, Iliad, 14. 321 Europa is otherwise called one of his two daughters by Perimede, daughter of Oeneus, the other one being Astypalaea;Pausanias, Description of Greece, 7. 4. 1 she is also included on the list of his children by Telephe, her siblings in this case being Peirus, Phoenice, and Astypale (apparently identical to the aforementioned Astypalaea).Scholia on Euripides, Phoenician Women, 5 Telephe, daughter of Epimedusa, is probably the same as Telephassa, whom MoschusMoschus, Idylls, 2. 42 calls wife and not mother of Phoenix. Finally, Cadmus was believed by some to be a son of Phoenix and not his brother.Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 3. 1186
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