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Attic neck-amphora featuring Heracles and Memnon (detail), c. 530-520 BC Eos retrieving the body of her son Memnon from the battlefield (detail); Etruscan Bronze mirror, c. 450–420 BC. In Greek mythology, Memnon (/ ˈ m ɛ m n ə n /; Ancient Greek: Μέμνων, lit. ' resolute ' [1]) was a king of Aethiopia and son of Tithonus and Eos.
In Greek mythology, Agamemnon (/ æ ɡ ə ˈ m ɛ m n ɒ n /; Ancient Greek: Ἀγαμέμνων Agamémnōn) was a king of Mycenae who commanded the Achaeans during the Trojan War.He was the son (or grandson) of King Atreus and Queen Aerope, the brother of Menelaus, the husband of Clytemnestra, and the father of Iphigenia, Iphianassa, Electra, Laodike, Orestes and Chrysothemis. [1]
Memnon of Rhodes (Greek: Μέμνων ὁ Ῥόδιος; c. 380 – 333 BC) was a prominent Rhodian Greek commander in the service of the Achaemenid Empire.Related to the Persian aristocracy by the marriage of his sister to the satrap Artabazus II, together with his brother Mentor he served the Persian king for most of his life, and played an important role during the invasion of Alexander the ...
Agamemnon: Scamandrius Menelaus: Eurypylus Neoptolemus: Agelaus Meges: Elatus Agamemnon: Menalcas Neoptolemus: Schedius Neoptolemus: Glaucus Ajax the Greater: Agelaus Ajax the Greater: Eniopeus Diomedes: Meneclus Nestor: Scylaceus Hector Achilles: Agenor Neoptolemus: Ennomus Neoptolemus: Menes Neoptolemus: Simoisius Ajax the Greater: Hippothous ...
As the battle turns against the Greeks, thanks to the influence of Zeus, Nestor declares that the Trojans are winning because Agamemnon has angered Achilles, and urges the king to appease the warrior. Agamemnon agrees and sends Odysseus and two other chieftains, Ajax and Phoenix. They promise that, if Achilles returns to battle, Agamemnon will ...
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Troy was destroyed by a war; 2. the destroyers were a coalition from mainland Greece; 3. the leader of the coalition was a king named Agamemnon; 4. Agamemnon's overlordship was recognized by the other chieftains; 5. Troy, too, headed a coalition of allies. Finley does not find any evidence for any of these elements. [14]: 175ff.
Memnon was a hero of the Trojan War and King of Ethiopia, who led his armies from Africa into Asia Minor to help defend the beleaguered city of Troy but was ultimately slain by Achilles. Memnon (whose name means the Steadfast or Resolute [19]) was said to be the son of Eos, the goddess of dawn. [20]