In Homer's Iliad, Phoenix is one of the Myrmidons led by Achilles, who along with Odysseus and Ajax urges Achilles to re-enter battle, giving the most passionate speech of the three. There is no doubt that this was a later addition to the epic, as Achilles continually uses a special dual verb form in speaking with his guests, rather than a more appropriate plural form.

Phoenix also makes a cameo in Virgil's Aeneid. As Aeneas is searching his fallen Troy for his wife Creusa, he glimpes Phoenix and Odysseus guarding their loot in Priam's palace.

A different Phoenix in Greek mythology was a son of Agenor and either brother or father to Cadmus. See Agenor and Phoenix.

Greek mythological people | People who fought in the Trojan War

Føniks (person) | Phoinix | Phœnix fils d'Amyntor