From a simple story of a bird dying in its nest and rising, reborn from its ashes has come centuries of fables of the Phoenix. The late-Roman poet Claudian hailed the Phoenix as one that hast beheld all that has been, / hast witnessed the passing of the ages, and more than one-and-a-half millennia since he wrote those lines, the bird is all around us in words and images. The figure is in our common speech: like the Phoenix rising from the ashes. Throughout the Internet are global place-names, businesses, organizations, and ...
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From a simple story of a bird dying in its nest and rising, reborn from its ashes has come centuries of fables of the Phoenix. The late-Roman poet Claudian hailed the Phoenix as one that hast beheld all that has been, / hast witnessed the passing of the ages, and more than one-and-a-half millennia since he wrote those lines, the bird is all around us in words and images. The figure is in our common speech: like the Phoenix rising from the ashes. Throughout the Internet are global place-names, businesses, organizations, and products of all kinds that bear forms of its name in multiple languages. Thanks to nineteenth-century scholars, the Phoenix is now widely associated with the ancient Egyptian benu and the Chinese fenghuang. The Phoenix figure has inspired contemporary restoration projects from that of Kobe, Japan, after the devastating 1995 earthquake, to that of the Washington, D.C., Pentagon after the terrorist bombings of September 11, 2001. Millions of us around the world watched live footage of the Fenix 2 capsule rescuing thirty-three trapped Chilean minersone by one--from deep within the earth in October 2010. Paradoxically, the pictorial modern Phoenix rises triumphantly from flames, not ashes, on seals, flags, coins, commercial logos, and emblems. This book traces its flight path throughout history, science, and culture, diving into writings of Shakespeare and Ray Bradbury, and depictions of the bird in hieroglyphs and on pottery. It explores the mythical taxonomy surrounding the bird, and those who have pursued it. This is the long-form Phoenix history, with an incredibly thorough sourcing of written, drawn, painted, and otherwise rendered representations. The mythical bird arises from the pages as a much more multi-dimensional creature than any singular myth or story can capture; its power and resilience and intrigue a guiding thru line."
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