Achillean

There is, I suggest, a typically Achillean joke at play here, a visual pun, displaying the phoenix as truly phoenix-ian in its exposure of its sex organs and at the same time snidely alluding to the Phoenicians' famed preoccupation with female genitalia.

Tendon-reflexes, as a rule, remain intact, except the Achillean one, which is frequently either absent or lowered.

"You should think of this and be pleasanter toward me, and love me as guilelessly as I love you, so that when you are a man we may be Achillean friends to each other." Theocritus, Moschus, Bion, edited and translated by Neil Hopkinson, Cambridge MA - London (2015)