Achilles and Memnon then fought.

* Alcyoneus, an Ethiopian who fought under Memnon in the Trojan War.

The Greek mercenaries, under the command of Memnon of Rhodes, who fought for the Persians, were abandoned after the cavalry retreat.

The Aethiopis ( Αἰθιοπίς ), in five books, is so called from the Aethiopian Memnon, who became the ally of the Trojans after the death of Hector.

Greek mythology attributed the founding of Susa to king Memnon of Aethiopia, a character from Homer's Trojan War epic, the Iliad.

In the Epic Cycle that revolved around the Trojan War, Tithonus, who has travelled east from Troy into Assyria and founded Susa, is bribed to send his son Memnon to fight at Troy with a golden grapevine.

Memnon was a hero of the Trojan War, a King of Ethiopia who led his armies from Africa into Asia Minor to help defend the beleaguered city but was ultimately slain by Achilles.

This suggests he was also familiar with the Greek Epic Cycle ( where the Ethiopian Memnon is slain by Achilles during the Trojan War ) and the history of Argos ( in Aeschylus ' Suppliants ).

File: Black-figure panel amphora. jpg | Black-Figure panel amphora ( Achilles fighting over the dead body of Antilochus with the Trojan hero Prince Memnon ), Greek, c. 575 B. C.

Next another Trojan ally arrives, Memnon, son of Eos and Tithonus, leading an Ethiopian contingent and wearing armour made by the god Hephaestus.

She was the Mother of several notable offspring, including the Winds, Zephyrus, Boreas, and Notus, and the Morning Star, Eosphoros, all of whom she bore to the Titan Astraeus (" of the Stars "), and Memnon, her son by Tithonus.

Memnon, who was killed by Achilles, seems to have a received a similar fate.

Zeus weighed the fate of the two heroes ; the weight containing that of Memnon sank, and he was slain by Achilles.

Artashata was the son of Arsames, son of Ostanes, one of Artaxerxes's brothers, and Sisygambis, daughter of Artaxerxes II Memnon.

As the metropolitan of Ephesus, Memnon was already present with his 52 bishops.

* Memnon of Rhodes ( 380 – 333 BC ): was the commander of the Greek mercenaries working for the Persian King Darius III when Alexander the Great of Macedonia invaded Persia in 334 BC and won the Battle of the Granicus River.

The dithyramb, a genre of lyrics traditionally sung to Dionysus, was later developed into narratives illustrating heroic myths ; Simonides is the earliest poet known to have composed in this enlarged form ( the geographer Strabo mentioned a dithyramb, Memnon, in which Simonides located the hero's tomb in Syria, indicating that he didn't compose only on legends of Dionysius.

Memnon was called " King of the East " by Hesiod, but he was killed on the plain of Troy by Achilles.

When his father Nestor was attacked by Memnon, Antilochus sacrificed himself to save him.

Emathion was king of Aethiopia, the son of Tithonus and Eos, and brother of Memnon.

Eurypylus was noted both for being one of the most handsome men ever ( next to Memnon ) and for fighting valiantly.

The Persian fleet under Memnon of Rhodes and Pharnabazus was apparently a considerable danger for Antipater, bringing war in the Aegean sea and threatening war in Europe.

Memnon, realizing the city was lost, set fire to it and withdrew with his army.

This distinguishes it from statues that were carved and moved like the Colossi of Memnon, which was moved in ancient times.

The Walters Art Museum. Gérôme's reputation was greatly enhanced at the Salon of 1857 by a collection of works of a more popular kind: the Duel: after the Masked Ball ( Musée Condé, Chantilly ), Egyptian Recruits crossing the Desert, Memnon and Sesostris and Camels Watering, the drawing of which was criticized by Edmond About.

Two French engineers, Jean-Baptiste Prosper Jollois and Édouard de Villiers du Terrage, were assigned to study the Ramesseum site, and it was with much fanfare that they identified it with the " Tomb of Ozymandias " or " Palace of Memnon " of which Diodorus of Sicily had written in the 1st century BC.

Thanks to Belzoni's hydraulics and his skill as an engineer ( Napoleon's men had failed in the same endeavour a decade or so earlier ), the 7-ton stone head arrived in London in 1818, where it was dubbed " The Younger Memnon " and, some years later, given pride of place in the British Museum.

The name Memnon means " Ruler of the Dawn ", and was probably applied to the colossi because of the reported cry at dawn of one of the statues ( see below ).

The legend of the " Vocal Memnon ", the luck that hearing it was reputed to bring, and the reputation of the statue's oracular powers, travelled the length of the known world, and a constant stream of visitors, including several Roman Emperors, came to marvel at the statues.

Eos and the slain Memnon ( mythology ) | Memnon on an Attic red-figure cup, ca.

She draws comparisons with Thetis ' role in another work of the epic Cycle concerning Troy, the lost Aethiopis, which presents a strikingly similar relationship — that of the divine Dawn, Eos, with her slain son Memnon ; she supplements the parallels with images from the repertory of archaic vase-painters, where Eros and Thetis flank the symmetrically opposed heroes with a theme that may have been derived from traditional epic songs.

The proceedings of both councils were reported to the emperor who decided ultimately to depose Cyril, Memnon and Nestorius.

According to Hesiod by Tithonus Eos had two sons, Memnon and Emathion.

Her image with the dead Memnon across her knees, like Thetis with the dead Achilles are icons that inspired the Christian Pietà.

While they were away, Memnon of Ethiopia, son of Tithonus and Eos, came with his host to help his stepbrother Priam.

In the ensuing battle, Memnon killed Antilochus, who took one of Memnon's blows to save his father Nestor.

* As the Persian satraps have gathered for a war council at Zeleia, Memnon argues that it is preferable for the Persians to avoid a pitched battle and adopt a scorched earth tactic.

* May – Alexander wins a major victory against the Persians commanded by the Greek mercenary Memnon of Rhodes, in the Battle of the Granicus near the Sea of Marmara.

* At Halicarnassus, Alexander successfully undertakes the first of many sieges, eventually forcing his opponents, the mercenary captain Memnon of Rhodes and the Persian satrap of Caria, Orontobates, to withdraw by sea.

According to McGuckin, Memnon, as bishop of Ephesus, commanded the " fervent and unquestioned loyalty " of the local populace and thus could count on the support of local factions to counterbalance the military might of Candidian's troops.

In view of the verdict of Rome against Nestorius, Memnon refused to have communion with Nestorius, closing the churches of Ephesus to him.

This council condemned Cyril for espousing the Arian, Apollinarian and Eunomian heresies and condemned Memnon for inciting violence.

The bishops at this council deposed both Cyril and Memnon.

At the fourth session, Cyril and Memnon presented a formal protest against John of Antioch for convening a separate conciliabulum.

In addition, they had the agreement of the papal legates and the support of the population of Ephesus who supported their bishop, Memnon.

Thus, he declared that Cyril, Memnon, and John were all deposed.