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MEMNON , in See also:Greek See also:mythology, son of See also:Tithonus and Eos (See also:Dawn), See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of the Aethiopians. Although mentioned in See also:Hesiod and the Odyssey, he is rather a See also:post-Homeric See also:hero. After the See also:death of See also:Hector he went to assist his See also:uncle See also:Priam against the Greeks. He performed prodigies of valour, but was slain by See also:Achilles, after he had himself killed See also:Antilochus, the son of See also:Nestor and the friend of Achilles. His See also:mother, Eos, removed' his See also:body from the See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field of See also:battle, and it was said that See also:Zeus, moved by her tears, bestowed See also:immortality upon him. According to another See also:account, Memnon was engaged in single combat with See also:Ajax Telamonius, when Achilles slew him before his warriors had See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time to come to his aid (Dictys Cretensis iv. 6; See also:Quintus Smyrnaeus ii.; See also:Pindar, Pythia, vi. 31). His mother wept for him every See also:morning, and the See also:early See also:dew-drops were said to be her tears. His companions were changed into birds, called Memnonides, which came every See also:year to fight and lament over his See also:grave, which was variously located (See also:Ovid, Metam. xiii. 576—622; See also:Pausanias x. 31). The See also:story of Memnon was the subject of the lost Aethiopis of See also:Arctinus of See also:Miletus; the See also:chief source from which our knowledge of him is derived is the second See also:book of the Posthomerica of Quintus Smyrnaeus (itself probably an See also:adaptation of the See also:works of Arctinus and See also:Lesches), where his exploits and death are described at length. As an Aethiopian, Memnon was described as See also:black, but was noted for his beauty. The fight between Achilles and Memnon was often represented by Greek artists, as on the See also:chest of Cypselus, and more than one Greek See also:play was written bearing his name as a See also:title. In later.,, times the tendency was to regard Memnon as a real See also:historical figure. He was said to have built the royal citadel of See also:Susa, called after him the Memnonion, and to have been sent by Teutamus, king of See also:Assyria, to the assistance of his See also:vassal Priam (Diod. Sic. ii. 22). In See also:Egypt, the name of Memnon was connected with the See also:colossal statues of Amenophis (Amenhotep) III.' near See also:Thebes, two of which still remain. The more northerly of these was partly destroyed by an See also:earthquake (27 B.C.) and the upper See also:part thrown down. A curious phenomenon then occurred. Every morning, when the rays of the rising See also:sun touched the statue, it gave forth musical sounds, like the
moaning See also:noise or the See also:sharp twang of a See also:harp-See also:string. This was supposed to be the See also:voice of Memnon responding to the greeting of his mother Eos. After the restoration of the statue by Septimius See also:Severus (A.D. 170) the sounds ceased. The See also:sound, which has been heard by See also:modern travellers, is generally attributed to the passage of the See also:air through the pores of the See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone, chiefly due to the See also:change of temperature at sunrise. Others have held that it was a See also:device of the priests. See also:Strabo (xvii. 816), the first to mention the sound, declares that he himself heard it, and Pausanias (i. 42, 3) says " one would compare the sound most nearly to the broken chord of a harp or a See also:lute " (See also:Juvenal xv. 5, with See also:Mayor's See also:note; See also:Tacitus, See also:Annals, ii. 61).
The supporters of the See also:solar theory look upon Memnon as the son of the dawn, who, though he might vanish from sight for a time, could not be destroyed; hence the immortality bestowed upon him by Zeus. He comes from the See also:east, that is, the See also:land of the rising sun. On early Greek vases he is represented as See also:borne through the air; this is the sun making his way to his See also:place of departure in the See also:west. Both Susa and See also:Egyptian Thebes, where there was a Memnonion or See also:temple in See also:honour of the hero, were centres of sun-See also:worship. " Eos, the mother of Memnon, is so transparently the morning, that her See also:child must rise again as surer as the sun reappears to run his daily course across the heavens (G. W. See also:Cox, Mythology and See also:Folklore, p. 267).
See J. A. Letronne, La Statue vocale de Memnon (1833); C. R. See also:Lepsius, Briefe aus Agypten (1852) ; " The Voice of Memnon " in See also:Edinburgh See also:Review (See also:July 1886); See also:article by R. See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland in See also:Roscher's Lexikon der mythologie.
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