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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. Painter of Munich 1410 - Wikipedia

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    Achilles and Memnon, Between Thetis and Eos, fighting over the body of Antilochos, amphora circa 510 BC. Munich: Staatliche Antikensammlungen.. The Painter of Munich 1410 was an Attic black-figure vase painter, active in the third quarter of the sixth century BC.

  4. Penthesilea - Wikipedia

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    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]

  5. Quintus Smyrnaeus - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. 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 ...

  7. Posthomerica - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. 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 ...

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