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
Orations
King from Ethiopia, ally of Troy.
and Memnon himself too was wounded by Antilochus, and being carried off wounded dies on the road.
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;
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;
Clouds
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.
Against Aristocrates
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:
Theogony
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.
Odyssey
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;
Helen
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.
Isthmean
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?
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 …
Nemean
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;
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.
Olympian
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.
Pythian
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.