A study of the phoenix based on the writings of several authors.

Contents: Lactantii, Carmen de ave Phoenice; Lactance, Poème sure le Phénix; Claudiani, Phoenix; Claudien, Le Phénix; Psuedo-Baruch, Apocalypse; Physiologus Grec, De l'oiseau Phénix; Physiologus de Vienne

It was in the 4th century AD that the myth of the phoenix reached its greatest popularity in the Greco-Roman world. Until then, naturalists, poets, historians and artists had often occasionally evoked the marvelous bird: only in the 4th century did literary works entirely devoted to it appear. Having become familiar to the entire pagan universe, the phoenix still possessed, at this time, its full symbolic value as an oriental myth dependent on ancient astrological, scientific and religious concepts. - [Introduction]

Language: French

LC: PA3015.R5P54