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*pun between ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix Pheonix]'' and ''finish''
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*'''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix Phoenix]''': mythical Egyptian bird that rises from its own ashes → ties in with theme of life and sleep cycles, and resurrection and waking
*pun on PhoeniciansCarthage was a Phoenician city that was utterly destroyed by Rome in the second Punic war (ended 241 B.C.).  The Romans so detested the Phoenicians that they sowed salt into the fields so that nothing would ever grow there again.
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*Phoenix Park in Dublin, also the mythical Phoenix (ties in with theme of life and sleep cycles and resurrection and waking).
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* '''finish'''
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* '''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!
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** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001300130491&isize=M&q1=Phoenix A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer]
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* '''Phoenix Park''': Dublin's principal municipal park
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** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001300130492&q1=Phoenix A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer]
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* '''''Gr'' φοινος (phoinos)''': bloody; blood-red; blood-thirsty → red end of the rainbow → [[Rot]] (003.12) and [[rory]] (003.13)
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** ''Gr'' φοινιξ (phoinix): phoenix; purple-red, crimson

Revision as of 10:54, 19 June 2006

  • Phoenix: mythical Egyptian bird that rises from its own ashes → ties in with theme of life and sleep cycles, and resurrection and waking
  • finish
  • 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!
  • 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