memnon (Meaning)
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memnon (n.)
A celebrated Egyptian statue near Thebes, said to have the property of emitting a harplike sound at sunrise.
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memnon Sentence Examples
- Memnon, the son of Tithonus and Eos, was a legendary king of Ethiopia.
- The Colossus of Memnon, a colossal statue in Egypt, is said to emit a mournful sound at sunrise.
- The Memnonium, a complex of temples and palaces in Egypt, was built by Ramses II in honor of his father.
- Memnon's legendary death in the Trojan War was the subject of Homer's Iliad.
- The Memnonites, a sect of Gnostic Christians, believed that Memnon was the son of God.
- The Memnonian bird, a mythical bird said to live at the edge of the Nile River, is reputed to sing at the approach of dawn.
- The Memnon stone, a black basalt slab found in Thebes, Egypt, bears an inscription that was deciphered by Champollion.
- The Memnonia, a mythological kingdom said to be ruled by Memnon, was located in Ethiopia or India.
- The Memnonian sphinx, a colossal statue of a sphinx with the head of Memnon, is found in Luxor, Egypt.
- The Memnonian temple, a temple dedicated to Memnon in Egypt, was destroyed by an earthquake in the 13th century.
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A celebrated Egyptian statue near Thebes, said to have the property of emitting a harplike sound at sunrise.
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Memnon, the son of Tithonus and Eos, was a legendary king of Ethiopia.
The Colossus of Memnon, a colossal statue in Egypt, is said to emit a mournful sound at sunrise.
The Memnonium, a complex of temples and palaces in Egypt, was built by Ramses II in honor of his father.
Memnon's legendary death in the Trojan War was the subject of Homer's Iliad.
