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Headword:
*me/mnwn
Adler number: mu,570
Translated headword: Memnon
Vetting Status: high
Translation: He fought against
Troy and was leader of the Ethiopians, but was not himself an Ethiopian; instead, [he came] from Susa in Persia and from the Choaspes river, where the peoples were under his control.
*me/mnwn, o( e)s *)/ilion strateu/sas, h(gei=to me\n *ai)qio/pwn, ou)k h)=n de\ *ai)qi/oy, a)lla\ a)po\ *sou/swn tw=n *persikw=n kai\ tou= *xoa/spou potamou=, ta\ e)kei/nh| e)/qnh u(poxei/ria e)/xwn.
Notes:
From
Pausanias 10.31.5-7 (web address 1), at 7; part of his painstakingly detailed description (10.25-31) of a building -- the Cnidian Clubhouse -- that he had seen at
Delphi, full of paintings of the Trojan War by Polygnotus (
pi 1948).
On the particular polemical point at issue here, and in general, see OCD4 p.928, under Memnon [
Author,
Myth](1).
Web address 1
Keywords: art history; biography; epic; geography; military affairs; mythology; politics
Translated by: David Whitehead on 25 September 2001@08:56:29.
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