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Memnon
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Memnon , in Greek mythology, king of Ethiopia...obtained immortality from Zeus for her son. Memnon was supposed to have lived in Egypt, and...musical sound at daybreak, at which time Memnon greeted his mother, goddess of dawn.
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Amenhotep III
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...was apparently the largest of its class ever built. The two gigantic statues of the Pharaoh, the so-called Colossi of Memnon, which stood in front of the temple, still tower over the plain. Although the Aten (sun disk) probably emerged as a recognized...
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Tithonus
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Tithonus , in Greek mythology, prince of Troy; son of Laomedon. He was loved by the dawn goddess, Eos, who bore him Memnon. When Eos begged Zeus to bestow immortality upon Tithonus, she forgot to ask the god to grant her lover eternal youth; so...
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Aiken, Conrad Potter
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
...Earth Triumphant (1914); The Jig of Forslin (1916); Senlin: A Biography (1918); John Deth (1930); and Preludes for Memnon (1931). His long poems show the somewhat diffused and diffuse influence of his Modernist contemporaries and friends. His...
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Carleton, Henry Guy
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
...inventor, who was born in Fort Union, New Mexico, made his first forays into playwriting with two serious works: the tragedy Memnon (1881) and the melodrama Victor Durand (1884). A Gilded Fool (1892) was written for Nat Goodwin and proved popular...
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Aiken, Conrad (Potter)
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
...metaphysical expression is developed in John Deth (1930), The Coming Forth by Day of Osiris Jones (1931), Preludes for Memnon (1931), Landscape West of Eden (1934), and Time in the Rock (1936), philosophic poems dealing with consciousness and...
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Antilochus
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Antilochus , in Greek mythology, young hero of the Trojan War, a favorite of Achilles. While protecting his father, Nestor, he was killed by Memnon. He was buried with Achilles and Patroclus.
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