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2. Memnon - Wikipedia

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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.

3. Memnon of Rhodes - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

4. Aethiopis - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

5. Posthomerica - Wikipedia

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   Priam and Paris say that fighting is the answer and Memnon, son of Dawn, and the Ethiopian army will be here soon. Polydamas says that Ethiopians will lose. Zeus thinks that tomorrow's battle will be ugly and full of death. Memnon kills Nestor's son Antilochos in battle. Eventually, after a long and difficult struggle; Achilles kills Memnon.

6. Aithiopes - Wikipedia

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   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]

7. Epic Cycle - Wikipedia

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   The Epic Cycle (Ancient Greek: Ἐπικὸς Κύκλος, romanized: Epikòs Kýklos) was a collection of Ancient Greek epic poems, composed in dactylic hexameter and related to the story of the Trojan War, including the Cypria, the Aethiopis, the so-called Little Iliad, the Iliupersis, the Nostoi, and the Telegony.

8. Herodes Atticus - Wikipedia

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   Herodes Atticus was the teacher of three notable students: Achilles, Memnon and Polydeuces (Polydeukes). "The aged Herodes Atticus in a public paroxysm of despair at the death of his perhaps eromenos Polydeukes, commissioned games, inscriptions and sculptures on a lavish scale and then died, inconsolable, shortly afterwards."

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