Memnon.
A son of Tithonus and Eos (Aurora), Memnon was king of the Ethiopians and led a force to the Trojan War. After the death of Hector, the arrival of Memnon’s legions gave the Trojans new heart, and Memnon led his soldiers in a great battle. He killed Antilochus but nobly refused to fight his aged father, Nestor. He finally faced Achilles in single combat and was killed. Memnon’s body was carried from the field of battle by his grief-stricken mother; the morning dew was thereafter said to be the tears Eos sheds for her son.
      According to the Aethiopis of Arctinus, Zeus made Memnon immortal. The Psychostasia of Aeschylus dealt with the “weighing of souls,” in which Zeus weighed the souls of Memnon and Achilles in the presence of their mothers, Thetis and Eos, to determine which was fated to fall by the other’s hand.
      The colossus of Amenophis, near Egyptian Thebes, was called Memnon by the Greeks. It was said to have made music when struck by the rays of the rising sun— Memnon greeting his mother, goddess of the dawn.
      
      
       Classical Sources. Homer, Odyssey 4.i87ff., 11.522. Hesiod, Theogony 984-85. Arctinus, Aethiopis. Lesches of Mitylene, Little Iliad. Aeschylus, Memnon; Psychostasia (both lost). Pindar, Olympian Odes 2.83; Pythian Odes 6.28ff.; Isthmian Odes 5.41, 8.54ff.; Nemean Odes 3.62ff., 6.48ff. Ovid, Metamorphoses 13.576-622. Apollodorus, Biblioteca 3.13.3, E5.3. Pliny, Naturalis historia 10.74, 36.58. Plutarch, De auditimepoetarium 2.17a. Pausanias, Description of Greece 1.42.3, 3.17.5-8, 10.31.5-7. Hyginus, Fqbulae 112. Quintus of Smyrna, Sequel to Homer 2.iooff.