# Phlebas the Phoenician — Poetry character guide

> Phlebas the Phoenician in Poetry by T. S. Eliot.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Water Phlebas the Phoenician, Consider Phlebas

**First appearance:** 0036-iv-death-by-water

## Who they are

A drowned Phoenician sailor whose death is contemplated in The Waste Land.

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