Difference between revisions of "Phoenish"

Revision as of 00:36, 13 July 2006

Phoenix: the bennu, a mythical Egyptian bird that rises from its own ashes → ties in with theme of life and sleep cycles, and resurrection and waking
- Third Census of Finnegans Wake
- Wikipedia

Dubliners, Ivy Day In The Committee Room: "Rise like Phoenix from the flames" (about Parnell)

Phoenix Tavern: 18th Century public house on the site of the present Mullingar House (in which FW, for the most part, is set)
- A Finnegnas Wake Gazetteer

Phoenicians: ancient Semitic people; Carthage was a Phoenician city that was utterly destroyed by Rome in the Third Punic War (148-146 B.C.); the Romans so detested the Phoenicians that they spread salt over the fields so that nothing would ever grow there again → an eighteenth-century theory held that the Irish were of Carthaginian origin!
- A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer

Phoenix Park: Dublin's principal municipal park
- A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer

Gr φοινος (phoinos): bloody; blood-red; blood-thirsty → red end of the rainbow → Rot (003.12) and rory (003.13)
- Gr φοινιξ (phoinix): phoenix; purple-red, crimson

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 ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001600160321&isize=M&q1=Phoenix Third Census of Finnegans Wake]
 ** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix Wikipedia]
+* Dubliners, Ivy Day In The Committee Room: "Rise like Phoenix from the flames" (about '''Parnell''')
+* T.S. Eliot, '''The Waste Land''' (Death By Water): Phlebas the Phoenician
 * '''Phoenix Tavern:''' 18th Century public house on the site of the present Mullingar House (in which FW, for the most part, is set)