Memnon

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Memnon may refer to three men:

• Memnon (mythology), in Greek mythology

• Memnon (Fantasy Literature), in the Forgotten Realms setting

• Memnon of Heraclea was a Greek historian. In about the 1st century he wrote a history of Heraclea Pontica, a city in Asia Minor on the Black Sea. Considerable extracts of Memnon's work are preserved by Photius, arguably the most significant specimen of the Greek local history;

• Memnon of Rhodes (380–333 BC): was the commander of the Greek mercenaries working for the Persian King Darius III when Alexander the Great of Macedonia invaded Persia in 334 BC and won the Battle of the Granicus River.

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