person
Memnon
King of Ethiopia, dark-skinned son of Aurora and Tithonus, slain at Troy; birds (the Memnonides) yearly fight in his honor.
Reading notes
- The Loves §1.8 black Memnon
Dark-skinned Ethiopian king, son of the dawn; 'the mother of black Memnon' is Aurora, whom the ever-drunk Dipsas never sees sober.
- Letters from the Black Sea §3.3 Memnon's color
Memnon, the dark Ethiopian hero whose ashes became the black memnonides-birds; 'of Memnon's color' means black — the impossibility that white swans could be so.
- The Festivals §4.20 Memnon
The Ethiopian hero, son of Aurora, slain at Troy.
- Metamorphoses §13.413 Memnon
King of the Ethiopians, son of Aurora, killed by Achilles at Troy.