Phoenix of Tenedos

Phoinix (Greek Φοινιξ, Latin form of Phoenix), from Tenedos, was a Greek military commander during the Diadochenkriege of the 4th century BC.

About a possible participation in the Asia campaign of Alexander the Great, nothing is handed down. For the first time Phoinix is BC in the wake of Eumenes of Cardia called at the beginning of the first Diadochenkrieges 321. In the victorious battle of the Hellespont against Craterus Phoinix led the cavalry of Eumenes. After Eumenes ' end at the Battle of Gabiene 316 BC Phoinix moved to the side of Antigonus Monophthalmos, of which he was as governor in the strategically important province of the Hellespontine Phrygia. But in the year 310 BC, he revolted along with the generals, Ptolemy against Antigonus, but was subdued by his son Philip again, and then pardoned.

In the year 302 BC, just before the decisive battle of Ipsos, Phoinix fell again on Antigonus and went over to the side of Lysimachus, by whom he was appointed commandant of Sardis. Then nothing more is known of him.