MEMNON

'Memnon' may refer to:

★ Memnon (mythology), in Greek mythology; and, erroneously named after him in the Graeco-Roman era:

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★ the Colossi of Memnon, two statues of Pharaoh Amenhotep III near modern-day Luxor;

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★ the Younger Memnon, one of two colossal statues of Ramesses II from the Ramesseum at Thebes, Egypt

★ Memnon of Heraclea, a Greek historian. In about the 1st century he wrote a history of Heraclea Pontica, a city in Asia Minor on the Black Sea. Considerable extracts of Memnon's work are preserved by Photius, arguably the most significant specimen of the Greek local history;

★ Memnon (ward of Herodes Atticus) at Athens in the 2nd century;

★ Memnon of Rhodes (380–333 BC), the commander of the Greek mercenaries working for the Persian King Darius III when Alexander the Great of Macedonia invaded Persia in 334 BC and won the Battle of the Granicus River; Memnon of Rhodes is the subject of a work of historical fiction, Memnon (ISBN 1-932815-39-2) by Scott Oden;

★ Memnon, the name of the main villain in the movie ''The Scorpion King'';

★ Memnon (Fantasy Literature), in the Forgotten Realms setting

★ 'Memnon Vanderbeam' is the name of the central character of the Kristofer Straub webcomic 'Starslip Crisis'.