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Later writers provide Rhesus with a more exotic parentage, claiming that his mother was one of the Muses [3] (Euterpe, [4] Calliope [5] or Terpsichore [6]) and his father, the river god Strymon. Stephanus of Byzantium mentions the name of Rhesus' sister Sete, who had a son Bithys with Ares. [7] In one account, Rhesus' brothers are called ...
Euterpe was born as one of the daughters of Mnemosyne, Titan goddess of memory, and fathered by Zeus, god of the gods.Her sisters include Calliope (muse of epic poetry), Clio (muse of history), Melpomene (muse of tragedy), Terpsichore (muse of dancing), Erato (muse of erotic poetry), Thalia (muse of comedy), Polyhymnia (muse of hymns), and Urania (muse of astronomy).
Rhesus (Ancient Greek: Ῥῆσος / Rhẽsos, Latin; Rhesus) was a river in Bithynia, [15] Troad, Anatolia (modern-day Hisarlik, Çanakkale, Turkey). [16] Per the Barrington Atlas , the Rhesus is likely Karaath Çay, a tributary of the Biga Çayı (known to antiquity as the Granicus). [ 17 ]
In Greek mythology, Strymon (/stryˈmɔːn/; Ancient Greek: Στρυμών) was a river-god and son of the Titans Oceanus and his sister-wife Tethys. [1] He was a king of Thrace. [2] By the Muses, [3] Euterpe [4] or Calliope [5] or Terpsichore, [6] he became the father of Rhesus. His other sons were Olynthus [7] and Brangas. [2]
Rhesus was the son of Strymon and Calliope or Euterpe. The sirens were the children of Achelous and Melpomene or Terpsichore. Kleopheme was the daughter of Erato and Malos. Hyacinth was the son of Clio, according to an unpopular account. [24] Hymenaeus was assigned as Apollo's son by one of the muses, either Calliope, or Clio, or Terpsichore ...
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 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; Rhesus factor, associated with a blood type, named after ...
Rhesus, Brangas, Sete In Greek mythology , Olynthus ( Ancient Greek : Ὄλυνθος ) was a son of Heracles and Bolbe , from whom the ancient city of Olynthus , and the river Olynthus near Apollonia , were believed to have received their name according to Athenaeus . [ 1 ]