Centuries before Othello, and millennia before Black Panther, there was Memnon, the king of the Ethiopians, who came to the defense of Troy during the Trojan War.  Homer mentions Memnon in both the Iliad and The Odyssey, and Virgil writes about him in the Aeneid, although he appears in all three works only briefly; Sophocles wrote...
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:12PM on July 6, 2025