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Attic neck-amphora featuring Heracles and Memnon (detail), c. 530-520 BC Eos retrieving the body of her son Memnon from the battlefield (detail); Etruscan Bronze mirror, c. 450–420 BC. In Greek mythology, Memnon (/ ˈ m ɛ m n ə n /; Ancient Greek: Μέμνων, lit. ' resolute ' [1]) was a king of Aethiopia and son of Tithonus and Eos.
In battle, Memnon kills Antilochus, a Greek warrior who was the son of Nestor and a great favourite of Achilles. Achilles then kills Memnon, and Zeus makes Memnon immortal at Eos' request. But in his rage Achilles pursues the Trojans into the very gates of Troy, and at the Scaean Gates he is killed by an arrow shot by Paris, assisted by the god ...
Achilles sits in silent indignation over his humiliation at Agamemnon's hands for most of the play. [clarification needed] Envoys from the Greek army attempt to reconcile Achilles to Agamemnon, but he yields only to Patroclus, who then battles the Trojans in Achilles' armour. The bravery and death of Patroclus are reported in a messenger's ...
Memnon of Rhodes (Greek: Μέμνων ὁ Ῥόδιος; c. 380 – 333 BC) was a prominent Rhodian Greek commander in the service of the Achaemenid Empire.Related to the Persian aristocracy by the marriage of his sister to the satrap Artabazus II, together with his brother Mentor he served the Persian king for most of his life, and played an important role during the invasion of Alexander the ...
Achilles and Penthesilea are flanked by a Greek soldier and an Amazon. Penthesilea is identified as a queen by a crown. Penthesilea, shown on the ground just before being struck, and Achilles are exchanging a gaze. [20] The final slab of the series on the Amazons depicts a truce between the Greek army and the Amazons at the end of the battle. [21]
Jebb et al. believe that the Aithiopes by Sophocles ought to be identified with his play the Memnon. [1] Lloyd-Jones says that the plot, though almost entirely unknown, is probably based on the story of the Ethiopian prince Memnon who was killed by Achilles, after having himself killed Nestor's son Antilochus in the Trojan War, which was described in the “lost post-Homeric epic Aethiopis” [2]
Articles relating to Achilles, a hero of the Trojan War, the greatest of all the Greek warriors, and the central character of Homer's Iliad. He was the son of the Nereid Thetis and Peleus , king of Phthia .
Memnon (voiced by David Alan Grier) is a reptilian fire-breathing monster, similar to a half-man and half-dragon, who is a servant of Hades. He fights the hero Achilles, who briefly allied himself with Hades to separate Hercules and Phil, but was later sent to kill Hercules and Phil until Achilles intervenes.