* Memnon of Heraclea Heraclea Pontica, Greek historian ; c. 1st century he wrote a history about his city in Asia Minor on the Black Sea

Memnon then deployed his infantry, and shortly before Alexander would have received his first ( and only ) defeat, his infantry managed to break through the city walls, surprising the Persian forces and killing Orontobates.

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.

Artemis was born in the city of Memnon in Calimshan ( modeled after Arabic Spain ), but traveled to Calimport with a desert caravan when he was only nine.

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 fought among the Trojans in the Trojan War and was slain.

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.

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.

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 ).

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.

To Photios, we are indebted for almost all we possess of Ctesias, Memnon of Heraclea, Conon, the lost books of Diodorus Siculus, and the lost writings of Arrian.

Having been dismissed by Timotheus ( 362 BC ) he joined the revolted satraps Memnon and Mentor in Asia, but soon lost their confidence, and was obliged to seek the protection of the Athenians.

Many of his manuscripts were lost when the clipper Memnon sank in 1851.

Unable to kill Mathayus himself, Memnon has him buried to his neck in sand for fire ants to eat his head.

Balthazar makes his way into Memnon's quarters and briefly helps Mathayus battle Memnon and his men, but a fire starts and they end up separated.

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

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 of Rhodes, the Greek mercenary who aligned himself with the Persians, advocated a scorched Earth strategy.

Eventually, with Alexander advancing deeper into Persian territory, Darius put Memnon in control of an army, and told him to finally confront Alexander.

He must have been familiar with Herodotus, and in some cases, he even attempted to synchronise Egyptian history with Greek ( for example, equating Memnon with Amenophis, and Armesis with Danaos ).

36 ), the author of an Aethiopis dealing with the life and death of Memnon and of a poem on the Rhine.

Memnon of Rhodes and satrap Arsamenes held the left wing each with his own cavalry ; Arsites was stationed next with the horsemen from Paphlagonia ; then came Spithrobates satrap of Ionia at the head of the Hyrcanian cavalry.

Mathayus ( Johnson ), the last true Akkadian mercenary, along with his half-brother, Jesup, and friend, Rama, is hired by King Pheron ( Rees ) to kill a sorcerer, whose prophetic powers allow the vicious Egyptian Emperor Memnon ( Brand ) to rule his empire with an iron fist.

After the Macedonians soundly defeated the Persian satraps of Asia Minor ( led by the Greek mercenary, Memnon of Rhodes ) at the Battle of the Granicus, Darius took personal command of his army.

Memnon, however, now deployed his catapults, and Alexander's army fell back.

However, Cassandra has a vision of Memnon and his army slaughtering the entire rebel tribe and informs Mathayus, warning him that Memnon will soon become the immortal Scorpion King and also foreseeing that he will die if he faces Memnon.