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Memnon
 
  Memnon may refer to:

  • Saint Memnon the Wonderworker — early Christian saint from Egypt, hermit and hegumen of one of Egyptian monasteries
  • Memnon (mythology)
    Memnon (mythology)

    In Greek mythology, Memnon was an Ethiopia king and son of Tithonus and Eos. At the Trojan War, he brought an army to Troy's defense and was killed by Achilles in retribution for killing Antilochus....
     and those erroneously named after him in the Graeco-Roman era:
    • the Colossi of Memnon
      Colossi of Memnon

      The 'Colossi of Memnon' are two massive stone statues of Pharaoh Amenhotep III. For the past 3400 years they have stood in the Thebes, Egypt necropolis, across the Nile from the modern city of Luxor....
      , two statues of Pharaoh Amenhotep III near modern-day Luxor
    • the Younger Memnon
      Younger Memnon

      The Younger Memnon statue is one of two colossal granite heads from the Ancient Egyptian mortuary temple called the Ramesseum at Thebes, Egypt, depicting the pharaoh Ramesses II wearing the nemes head-dress with a uraeus on top....
      , one of two colossal statues of Ramesses II from the Ramesseum at Thebes, Egypt
  • Memnon of Heraclea
    Memnon of Heraclea

    Memnon of Heraclea was a Greeks historical writer, probably a native of Heraclea Pontica. He described the history of that city in a large work, known only through the Excerpta of Photius I of Constantinople, and describing especially the various tyrants who had at times ruled Heraclea....
     Heraclea Pontica, Greek historian; c. 1st century he wrote a history about his city in Asia Minor on the Black Sea
  • Memnon (ward of Herodes Atticus) at Athens in the 2nd century
  • Memnon of Rhodes
    Memnon of Rhodes

    Memnon of Rhodes was the commander of the Greece mercenaries working for the Persian Empire king Darius III when Alexander the Great of Macedon invaded Persia in 334 BC and won the Battle of the Granicus River....
     (380–333 BC), commander of the Greek mercenaries working for the Persian King Darius III; Memnon of Rhodes is the subject of a work of historical fiction, Memnon (historical novel) by Scott Oden
  • Memnon (character), the name of the main villain in the movie The Scorpion King
    The Scorpion King

    The Scorpion King is a 2002 in film starring Dwayne Johnson, Michael Clarke Duncan, Kelly Hu, Steven Brand, Ralf Moeller and Grant Heslov, and is directed by Chuck Russell....