Memnon

[ mem-non ]

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noun

Colossus of, (in ancient Egypt) a colossal statue near Thebes said to produce a musical sound when the rays of the early morning sun struck it. Compare Vocal Memnon.
Classical Mythology. an Ethiopian king slain by Achilles in the Trojan War.

Memnon

/ ˈmɛmnɒn; mɛmˈnəʊnɪən /

Greek myth a king of Ethiopia, son of Eos: slain by Achilles in the Trojan War
a colossal statue of Amenhotep III at Thebes in ancient Egypt, which emitted a sound thought by the Greeks to be the voice of Memnon

He had contracted an intimate alliance with Memnon, bishop of Ephesus.

Memnon was the son of Aurora and Tithonus, and was dearly loved by his young and beautiful mother.

Morning was just breaking upon the distant range-the scene as beautiful as when the sunrise beams across the plain of Memnon.

Every year, on the anniversary of Memnon's death, the birds returned to celebrate the funeral rites in this same strange way.

They wear the headgear of the Sphinx, and are gigantic human forms seated on thrones—the colossal statues of Memnon.

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