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* '''Phoenix Tavern:''' 18th Century public house on the site of the present Mullingar House (in which FW, for the most part, is set) | * '''Phoenix Tavern:''' 18th Century public house on the site of the present Mullingar House (in which FW, for the most part, is set) | ||
| − | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity= | + | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl.MinkGazetteer.p0498&isize=M&q1=Phoenix A Finnegnas Wake Gazetteer] |
* '''finish''' | * '''finish''' | ||
* '''Phoenicians:''' ancient Semitic-speaking 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! | * '''Phoenicians:''' ancient Semitic-speaking 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! | ||
| − | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity= | + | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl.MinkGazetteer.p0491&isize=M&q1=Phoenix A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer] |
* '''Phoenix Park:''' Dublin's principal municipal park | * '''Phoenix Park:''' Dublin's principal municipal park | ||
| − | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity= | + | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl.MinkGazetteer.p0492&q1=Phoenix A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer] |
* '''phoinos (φοινος):''' (''Greek'') bloody; blood-red; blood-thirsty → red end of the rainbow → [[Rot]] ([[Page_3|FW 003.12]]) and [[rory]] ([[Page_3|FW 003.13]]) | * '''phoinos (φοινος):''' (''Greek'') bloody; blood-red; blood-thirsty → red end of the rainbow → [[Rot]] ([[Page_3|FW 003.12]]) and [[rory]] ([[Page_3|FW 003.13]]) | ||
Revision as of 12:47, 11 June 2008
- Phoenix: the bennu, a mythical Egyptian bird that rises from its own ashes → ties in with the theme of life and sleep cycles, and resurrection and waking
- 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)
- finish
- Phoenicians: ancient Semitic-speaking 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!
- Phoenix Park: Dublin's principal municipal park
- phoinos (φοινος): (Greek) bloody; blood-red; blood-thirsty → red end of the rainbow → Rot (FW 003.12) and rory (FW 003.13)
- phoinix (φοινιξ): (Greek) phoenix; purple-red, crimson
