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Over time the phoenix motif spread from its origins in classical folklore and gained a variety of new associations: Herodotus , Lucan , Pliny the Elder , Pope Clement I , Lactantius , Ovid , and Isidore of Seville are among those who have contributed to the retelling and transmission of the phoenix motif.

Over time, extending beyond its origins in classical Greek folklore, the phoenix could variously "symbolize renewal in general as well as the sun, time, the Empire , metempsychosis , consecration , resurrection , life in the heavenly Paradise , Christ , Mary , virginity , the exceptional man, and certain aspects of Christian life".

The modern English word phoenix enters the English language from Latin, later reinforced by French. This borrowing was later reinforced by French influence, which had also borrowed the Latin noun.

In time, the word developed specialized use in the English language: For example, the term could refer to an "excellent person" 12th century , a variety of heraldic emblem 15th century , and the name of a constellation 17th century.

That word is probably a borrowing from a West Semitic word for madder , a red dye made from Rubia tinctorum.

The word Phoenician appears to be from the same root, meaning 'those who work with red dyes'. So phoenix may mean 'the Phoenician bird' or 'the purplish-red bird'.

Exterior to the Linear B mention above from Mycenean Greece in which the entity is referred to as a griffin -like entity, the earliest clear mention of the phoenix in ancient Greek literature occurs in a fragment of the Precepts of Chiron , attributed to 6th century BC Greek poet Hesiod.

In the fragment, the wise centaur Chiron tells a young hero Achilles the following:. Classical discourse on the subject of the phoenix attributes a potential origin of the phoenix to Ancient Egypt.

Herodotus , writing in the 5th century BC, provides the following account of the phoenix:. Indeed it is a great rarity, even in Egypt, only coming there according to the accounts of the people of Heliopolis once in five hundred years, when the old phoenix dies.

Its size and appearance, if it is like the pictures, are as follow:— The plumage is partly red, partly golden, while the general make and size are almost exactly that of the eagle.

They tell a story of what this bird does, which does not seem to me to be credible: that he comes all the way from Arabia, and brings the parent bird, all plastered over with myrrh, to the temple of the Sun, and there buries the body.

In order to bring him, they say, he first forms a ball of myrrh as big as he finds that he can carry; then he hollows out the ball and puts his parent inside, after which he covers over the opening with fresh myrrh, and the ball is then of exactly the same weight as at first; so he brings it to Egypt, plastered over as I have said, and deposits it in the temple of the Sun.