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Memnon and who
The proceedings of both councils were reported to the emperor who decided ultimately to depose Cyril, Memnon and Nestorius.
In the ensuing battle, Memnon killed Antilochus, who took one of Memnon's blows to save his father Nestor.
In addition, they had the agreement of the papal legates and the support of the population of Ephesus who supported their bishop, Memnon.
* Alcyoneus, an Ethiopian who fought under Memnon in the Trojan War.
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.
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.
Memnon of Rhodes, the Greek mercenary who aligned himself with the Persians, advocated a scorched Earth strategy.
There he met British Consul General Henry Salt, who hired his services to collect from the temple in Thebes the so-called ' Younger Memnon ', one of two colossal granite heads depicting Ramesses II, and transport it to England.
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.
The Greek mercenaries, under the command of Memnon of Rhodes, who fought for the Persians, were abandoned after the cavalry retreat.
They briefly stumble into the laboratory of Memnon's sympathetic court magician, Philos ( Hill ), who directs Mathayus to the courtyard where Memnon is training.
Cassandra kills the guard who shot Mathayus, while Mathayus recovers his bow, pulls the arrow out of his back and uses it to shoot the exhausted Memnon.
Herodes Atticus was the teacher of three notable students who were Achilles, Memnon and Polydeuces ( Polydeukes ).
In battle, Memnon kills Antilochus, a Greek warrior who was the son of Nestor and a great favourite of Achilles.
Sisygambis was the daughter of king Artaxerxes II Memnon, who married Arsames of Ostanes, and the mother of Darius III of Persia, whose reign was ended during the wars of Alexander the Great.

Memnon and was
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.
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.
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 ).

Memnon and killed
Antilochus was later killed in battle by Memnon.
According to Memnon of Heraclea's History of Heraclea Pontica, Lysimachus was killed by a javelin thrown by Malacon, a Heracleian soldier serving under Seleucus.

Memnon and by
According to Hesiod by Tithonus Eos had two sons, Memnon and Emathion.
* Northern statue of the Colossi of Memnon is shattered by an earthquake in Egypt ( according to Strabo ).
He is succeeded by his son Artaxerxes II ( Memnon —' the Mindful ').
* 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.
* Macedonian troops, commanded by Parmenion, trusted lieutenant of Philip II, arrive in Asia Minor, but are driven back by Persian forces under the command of the Greek mercenary Memnon of Rhodes.
* Memnon ( novel ) by Scott Oden, based on Memnon of Rhodes
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.
More dangerous enemies were nearer home ; tribes in Thrace rebelled in 332 BC, led by Memnon of Thrace, the Macedonian governor of the region, followed shortly by the revolt of Agis III, king of Sparta.
So to not have two enemies simultaneously, Antipater pardoned Memnon and even let him keep his office in Thrace, while great sums of money were sent him by Alexander.

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