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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 ...
Antilochus' death was avenged by Achilles, who drove the Trojans back to the gates, where he is killed by Paris. [6] In later accounts, Antilochus was slain by Hector [ 7 ] or by Paris in the temple of the Thymbraean Apollo together with Achilles [ 8 ] His ashes, along with those of Achilles and Patroclus, were enshrined in a mound on the ...
Thersites tells Achilles not to worry about women; Achilles eventually kills him and upsets Diomedes. Thymoites tells Troy if they are to stay in the city, they will die, therefore everyone should leave. Priam and Paris say that fighting is the answer and Memnon, son of Dawn, and the Ethiopian army will be here soon.
In the ensuing battle, Memnon killed Antilochus, who took one of Memnon's blows to save his father Nestor. [123] Achilles and Memnon then fought. Zeus weighed the fate of the two heroes; the weight containing that of Memnon sank, [124] and he was slain by Achilles. [116] [125] Achilles chased the Trojans to their city, which he entered. The ...
Posthomerica, 1541. The plot of Posthomerica begins where Homer's Iliad ends, immediately after Hector's body was regained by the Trojans. [8] The first four books, covering the same ground as the Aethiopis of Arctinus of Miletus, describe the doughty deeds and deaths of the Amazon Penthesileia and of Aethiopian king Memnon, the son of the dawn goddess Eos, both slain by Achilles, and 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]
Another trilogy apparently recounted the entrance of the Trojan ally Memnon into the war, and his death at the hands of Achilles (Memnon and The Weighing of Souls being two components of the trilogy). The Award of the Arms, The Phrygian Women, and The Salaminian Women suggest a trilogy about the madness and subsequent suicide of the Greek hero ...