Memnon

Family: Trojans · First appears: The Aethiopis

In The Aethiopis, Memnon, the son of Eos, comes to help the Trojans wearing armour made by Hephaestus. Achilles kills Memnon in battle, after which Eos obtains immortality from Zeus and bestows it upon her son. In The Cercopes, the mother of Passalus and Acmon is identified as “a daughter of Memnon,” but the material does not say when this relationship occurs.

Relationship record

Life events

• Memnon comes to help the Trojans.(The Aethiopis)
  • “Then Memnon, the son of Eos, wearing armour made by Hephaestus, comes to help the Trojans”
• Achilles kills Memnon in battle.(The Aethiopis)
  • With: Achilles
  • “Memnon by Achilles.”
• Eos obtains immortality from Zeus and bestows it upon Memnon.(The Aethiopis)
  • With: Eos
  • “Eos then obtains of Zeus and bestows upon her son immortality”

The Aethiopis

• parent: Eos “Then Memnon, the son of Eos, wearing armour made by Hephaestus, comes to help the Trojans”

The Cercopes

• child: the mother of Passalus and Acmon (The Cercopes) “Their mother, a daughter of Memnon,”

Also listed in Trojans — Minor Figures

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Extracted from the original text of Hesiod and Homerica. Made with Rho MD.