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Rhesus (/ ˈ r iː s ə s /; Ancient Greek: Ῥῆσος Rhêsos) is a mythical king of Thrace in The Iliad who fought on the side of Trojans.Rhesus arrived late to the battle and while asleep in his camp, Diomedes and Odysseus stole his team of horses during a night raid on the Trojan camp.
Rhesus may refer to: Rhesus of Thrace, a king in Greek mythology; In Greek mythology, a river-god, son of Oceanus and Tethys; Rhesus, the Ancient Greek tragedy thought to have been written by Euripides; Rhesus (river), a river of the Troad mentioned by Homer; Rhesus macaque, also known as the rhesus monkey
Alexander the Great retains Thrace and suppresses rebellion, 335–323 BC; Lysimachus, one of the Diadochi, includes Thrace in his kingdom, 323–281 BC [49] [50] Philip V of Macedon controls all cities of Thrace up to the hellespont, [51] 238–179 BC; Perseus of Macedon continues controlling the part of Thrace his father left him, 212–166 BC
Rhesus (Ancient Greek: Ῥῆσος, Rhēsos) is an Athenian tragedy that belongs to the transmitted plays of Euripides.Its authorship has been disputed since antiquity, [1] and the issue has invested modern scholarship since the 17th century when the play's authenticity was challenged, first by Joseph Scaliger and subsequently by others, partly on aesthetic grounds and partly on account of ...
Rhesus of Thrace, a mythological Thracian king, was so named because of his red hair and is depicted on Greek pottery as having red hair and a red beard. [58] Ancient Greek writers also described the Thracians as red-haired. A fragment by the Greek poet Xenophanes describes the Thracians as blue-eyed and red haired:
The modern boundaries of Thrace in Bulgaria, Greece, and Turkey The physical–geographical boundaries of Thrace: the Balkan Mountains to the north, the Rhodope Mountains (highlighted) and the Bosporus The Roman province of Thrace c. 200 AD The Byzantine thema of Thrace Map of Ancient Thrace made by Abraham Ortelius in 1585, stating both the names Thrace and Europe Thrace and the Thracian ...
Rhesus, a king of Thrace who sided with Troy in the Trojan War Penthesilea (Πενθεσίλεια), an Amazon queen who fought in the Trojan War on the side of Troy Family and servants of Odysseus
Thrace had the potential to muster a huge number of troops [14] though this rarely occurred. By tradition, Thracians honored warriors and, according to Herodotus, despised all other occupations. [14] The Thracians fought as peltasts using javelins and crescent [15] or round wicker shields called peltes. Missile weapons were favored but close ...