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    Memnon

    mythological figure · 10 works · 13 mentions · 16 anchored passages

    Memnon the Ethiopian · brazen-crested Memnon · powerful Memnon · the man-slaying commander of the Ethiopians

    in the texts

    OrationsImperial · Greek

    King from Ethiopia, ally of Troy.

    and Memnon himself too was wounded by Antilochus, and being carried off wounded dies on the road.
    oration 11
    And once a stronger battle taking place, as they forced their way to take the fort, Ajax dies by Hector, and Antilochus by Memnon before his father;
    oration 11
    And here there came to the Trojans, from Ethiopia Memnon, and the Amazons from Pontus, as helpers, and another multitude of allies, as they learned that Priam and Hector prospered and the Achaeans were all but destroyed—some out of goodwill, some too out of fear of their power;
    oration 11

    CloudsClassical · Greek

    A mythological hero whose mourning-day is invoked by the Chorus of Clouds.

    And often, while we gods are observing a fast, when we mourn for Memnon or Sarpedon, you are pouring libations and laughing.
    clouds

    Against AristocratesClassical · Greek

    Son-in-law of Artabazus involved in the decision to let Charidemus depart.

    Accordingly, they persuaded Artabazus to forgo his vengeance upon Charidemus, and to send him off under an armistice, advising him that you would bring Charidemus across with or without his consent:
    against aristocrates

    TheogonyClassical · Greek

    King of the Ethiopians, son of Eos and Tithonus.

    And Eos bore to Tithonus brazen-crested Memnon, king of the Ethiopians, and the Lord Emathion.
    chapter 75

    OdysseyClassical · Greek

    Warrior named as the sole exception to Eurypylos's handsomeness, implying his own renowned beauty.

    Many a man did he kill in battle - I cannot name every single one of those whom he slew while fighting on the side of the Argives, but will only say how he killed that valiant hero Eurypylos son of Telephus, who was the handsomest man I ever saw except Memnon;
    chapter 11

    HelenClassical · Greek

    Son of Eos who fought and died at Troy.

    Zeus, though foreseeing the fate of Sarpedon,and Eos that of Memnon, and Poseidon that of Cycnus, and Thetis that of Achilles, nevertheless they all urged them on and sent them forth, thinking it more honorable for them to die fighting for the daughter of Zeus than to live without having taken part in the perils undergone on her account.
    helen

    IsthmeanClassical · Greek

    Bronze-armed commander of the Ethiopian allies of Troy, killed in the Trojan War (by Achilles).

    Tell me, who killed Cycnus, and who Hector, and the fearless commander of the Ethiopians, bronze-armed Memnon?
    chapter 5
    And the voices of poets made known the youthful excellence of Achilles to those who had been unaware of it—Achilles, who stained the vine-covered plain of Mysia, spattering it with the dark blood of Telephus, and bridged a homecoming for the Atreids, and freed Helen, cutting with his spear the sinews of Troy, which had once tried to keep him from marshalling on the plain the work of man-slaying wa …
    chapter 8

    NemeanClassical · Greek

    Ethiopian leader and son of the Dawn, killed by Achilles at Troy.

    It even reached the Ethiopians, when Memnon did not return to his home;
    chapter 6
    and when he came into close conflict with the spear-bearing Ethiopians, he might fix it in his mind that their leader, powerful Memnon the kinsman of Helenus, should not return to his home.
    antigone

    OlympianClassical · Greek

    Son of the Dawn (Eos), Ethiopian ally of Troy, killed by Achilles.

    Achilles, who laid low Hector, the irresistible, unswerving pillar of Troy, and who consigned to death Memnon the Ethiopian, son of the Dawn.
    chapter 2

    PythianClassical · Greek

    The Ethiopian commander who threatens Nestor with his spear, prompting Antilochus's fatal act of filial rescue.

    he died for his father’s sake, by awaiting the man-slaying commander of the Ethiopians, Memnon.
    chapter 19