Phoenix's life before the Trojan War, is related that he seduced his father's concubine at the urging of his mother. Having heard about this, Amyntor punished his son by cursing him with infertility. Phoenix then fled to Peleus, who in turn took him to Chiron; the latter restored Phoenix's sight, whereupon Peleus made Phoenix king of the Dolopes. He participated in the Kalydonian Boar Hunt. Phoenix also makes a cameo in Virgil's Aeneid. As Aeneas is searching his fallen Troy for his wife Creusa, he glimpses Phoenix and Odysseus guarding their loot in Priam's palace.