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Draft:Memnun

  • Comment: Not notable enough as a subtopic outside of the parent page PARAKANYAA (talk) 07:00, 20 August 2024 (UTC)
  • Comment: I don't know enough about the mythology to understand, but is this the same myth as Memnon? -- NotCharizard 🗨 10:44, 27 July 2024 (UTC)

Memnun (also stylized as Memrun[1]) is the Etruscan name analogous to the Latinized as Memnon , further analogous to how Epic Greek Authors described the Eithopian King, epic hero Μέμνων.[2][3][4][5]

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Bronze mirror Etruscan ca. 450–420 BCE Achle (Achilles) fighting with Memnun (Memnon) and Thesan (Eos) retrieving the body of her son Memnun from the battlefield. Accession Number: 22.139.84

The Etruscans had their own expansive Mythological tradition evidenced the Etruscan Mythological Figures, where Bronze mirror Etruscan (ca. 450–420 BCE) is currently on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, (Accession Number 22.13.84)

Etruscan art is written in the Etruscan language and not in any form or Ancient Greek or Latin which makes the study a unique subject, Memnun is the son of Thesan, (the distinctly Etruscan goddess of dawn) analogous (but distinct to Greek Ηως/Eos and distinct to Roman Aurora).

Memnun is Thesan's the son by Thinthun (Tithonus) whom Thesan abducted as a young man. The couple had two children (Memnun and his brother); Subsequently, Memnun was killed in the Trojan War after battling Achle. Thesan was so distraught that she threatened never to bring forth her "rosy-fingered' dawn [6]again. She was finally persuaded to return, but in her grief she weeps tears of dew every morning for her beloved son.

Detail of an Etching of a Etruscan Bronze Mirror with Lasa, Tinthun, Thesan and Memnun. Bronze Mirror from Chiusi, ca 300 BCE Florence, Museo Archelogico Nazionale After ES:4.290[1]
Cleveland Museum of Art: Mirror with Engraved Scene: Thesan and Memnun c. 470–460 BCE  : Two figures occupy the reverse side of this nearly circular bronze mirror, neatly enclosed by a continuous ivy-leaf border. Equipped with wings and winged shoes, the dawn goddess Thesan carries the body of her son Memnun. Slain by Achle on the battlefield at Troy. Memnun still wears armor and greaves, though his crested helmet has fallen below. The subject occurs on several other Etruscan mirrors vases of the same time period. J. H. Wade Fund 1952.259

The Etruscan Mirror's displayed similar motifs as the Greek ones did about such as Memnon Pieta[7] where Thesan mourns the loss of her son.[8]

Metropolitan Museum of Art Negative of a Bronze Mirror: Memnun and Thesan at the Metropolitan Accession Number 21.88.28 Thesan (Eos) Morning, Dawn, Aurora. She appears on a mirror in New York, rescuing her son Memnun from death at the hands of Achle.

One engraved mirror illustrates Thesan's plea before Tinia (Greek Zeus) with Thethis (Thetis), the mother of Achle (Achilles) present. Both goddesses urged Tinia to spare the sons of each from death in battle but both were already doomed to die.

Relief mirrors such as the Bronze Etruscan Mirror (Accession Number: 22.139.84 ) depict Thesan carrying off the body of her dead son Memnun from the battelfield with Achle (Achile/Achilles) present.[9][10]

References

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  1. ^ a b De Grummond, Nancy Thomson (2006). Etruscan myth, sacred history, and legend. Philadelphia, PA, USA: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. pp. 110, 169, 268. ISBN 978-1931707862.
  2. ^ Wallace, Rex; Bonfante, Giuliano; Bonfante, Larissa (2004). "The Etruscan Language: An Introduction". The Classical World. 98 (1): 114. doi:10.2307/4352917. ISSN 0009-8418. JSTOR 4352917.
  3. ^ "Logeion( literally, a place for words)". University of Chicago. Retrieved 2024-07-10.
  4. ^ "Review of: Etruscan Myth, Sacred History, and Legend". Bryn Mawr Classical Review. ISSN 1055-7660.
  5. ^ "Τυρρηνοί | The Herodotos Project". u.osu.edu. Retrieved 2024-08-03.
  6. ^ Lee, Sherman E. (1953). "An Etruscan Mirror with Eos and Memnon". The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art. 40 (2): 32–35. ISSN 0009-8841.
  7. ^ "CONA Iconography Record". www.getty.edu. Retrieved 2024-07-26.
  8. ^ "Bronze mirror | Etruscan | Classical". The Cleveland Museum of Art. Retrieved 2024-07-10.
  9. ^ "Bronze mirror | Etruscan | Classical". The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 2024-07-26.
  10. ^ Bonfante, Giuliano; Bonfante, Larissa (2002). The Etruscan Language: An Introduction (2nd ed.). New York, New York: Manchester University Press. pp. 192, 201, 206.
 
Etching of "Etruscan Mirror with Thesan and Tinia" as discussed by Simon, Erika "Gods in Harmony: The Etruscan Pantheon" (Chapter IV) of The Religion of the Etruscans, edited by Nancy Thomson de Grummond , New York, USA: University of Texas Press, 2006, pp. 45-65. https://doi.org/10.7560/706873-008[1]
  1. ^ Simon, Erika (2009-04-20), "IV. Gods in Harmony: The Etruscan Pantheon", IV. Gods in Harmony: The Etruscan Pantheon, University of Texas Press, pp. 45–65, doi:10.7560/706873-008/html, ISBN 978-0-292-79628-7, retrieved 2024-08-03
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