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Greek harry potter books4/7/2024 Interestingly, Tacitus and Herodotus suggest not that a phoenix is reborn from its own flames, but that a young phoenix will carry the body of its parent bird some considerable distance and then bury it. His sources are unanimous on the subject of the bird’s beak and the colour of its plumage, however: all agree that it differs from every other bird, and is sacred to the sun. Tacitus found some disagreement about the bird’s lifespan, but says it is generally held to live for around 500 years. He does add that he hasn’t seen the creature himself, only pictures of one.Įven the more critical Roman historian, Tacitus, reports on a phoenix-sighting, again in Egypt, during the reign of the emperor Tiberius in the First Century CE. In this instance, he’s told that phoenixes live in Egypt, so he relays this information to his readers. He reports what he is told by people he meets on his travels, often without the presentation of further evidence. Herodotus is known as the ‘father of history’ and, by his critics, as the ‘father of lies’. His colouring – red and gold – is the same as that of the phoenixes mentioned by Herodotus in his Histories from the Fifth Century BCE. Fawkes the Phoenix is not only a fantastic beast, capable of auto-regeneration, he’s also a historical one. But the vast majority of Rowling’s best-loved monsters have winged their way from the Ancient World to her modern, magical one.
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