#phoinix

I just feel as if it's sad that Phoinix had to watch the boy he raised as his own- cutting his food and dealing with his spit-up as a baby- turn into an intractabley rage-filled man.

Illustration by Willy Pogany from the book The adventures of Odysseus and the tale of Troy (1918) by Padraic Colum

let me see that old man!!! do you understand how few labeled phoinix pottery depictions we have!

And then watching him die - watching him crave death as a starving man craves food - and having to watch as his son, the final, fragile remnants of your beloved ward, enters the battle that took his father, his animal brutality and cruelty

Illustration by Bonaventura Genelli, 1844

Illustration by Bonaventura Genelli, 1844