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The death of Memnon echoes that of Hector, another defender of Troy whom Achilles also killed out of revenge for a fallen comrade, Patroclus. After Memnon's death, Zeus was moved by Eos' tears and granted him immortality. Memnon's death is related at length in the lost epic Aethiopis, [2] likely composed after The Iliad, circa the 7th century BC.
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 ...
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]
Memnon of Heraclea (/ ˈ m ɛ m n ən /; Ancient Greek: Mέμνων, gen.: Μέμνονος; fl. c. 1st century) was a Greek historical writer, probably a native of Heraclea Pontica . He described the history of that city in a large work, known only through the Excerpta of Photius (I of Constantinople) , and describing especially the various ...
The Younger Memnon is an Ancient Egyptian statue, one of two colossal granite statues from the Ramesseum mortuary temple in Thebes, Upper Egypt. It depicts the Nineteenth Dynasty Pharaoh Ramesses II wearing the Nemes head-dress with a cobra diadem on top.
Will Power's "Memnon," a co-production between the Getty Villa and the Classical Theatre of Harlem, has its world premiere. Review: 'Memnon' restores a forgotten African hero to the Classical ...
Memnon of Heraclea, 1st or 2nd century Greek historian; Saint Memnon the Wonderworker, 2nd century Christian saint from Egypt, hermit and hegumen of one of Egyptian monasteries; Memnon, ward of Herodes Atticus in Athens in the 2nd century AD; Saint Memnon the Centurion, martyred c. 305 - see August 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Saint Memnon the Wonderworker was alive during the second century A.D. [1] [2] He was a hegumen of an Egyptian monastery. His feast day is April 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) . In the Egyptian desert he practised religious asceticism .