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;
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MEMNON, in Greek mythology, son of Tithonus and Eos (Dawn), king of the Aethiopians.
The fight between Achilles and Memnon was often represented by Greek artists, as on the chest of Cypselus, and more than one Greek play was written bearing his name as a title.
The supporters of the solar theory look upon Memnon as the son of the dawn, who, though he might vanish from sight for a time, could not be destroyed; hence the immortality bestowed upon him by Zeus.
Mentor, the brother of Memnon, being high in favour with Ochus on account of his services in Egypt, interceded on behalf of Artabazus and Memnon, who were pardoned and again received into favor.
On the death of Mentor, Memnon, who possessed great military skill and experience, succeeded him in his authority, which extended over all the western coast of Asia Minor (about B.C. When Alexander invaded Asia, Memnon, with the satraps Spithridates and Arsites, collected an army, with which they encamped on the banks of the Granicus.
Memnon, thinking their forces insufficient to oppose Alexander, recommended that they should retire and lay waste the country behind them; but his advice was overruled.
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