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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 ...
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 ]
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).
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 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 ...
In Greek mythology, Calliope (/ k ə ˈ l aɪ. ə p i / kə-LY-ə-pee; Ancient Greek: Καλλιόπη, romanized: Kalliópē, lit. 'beautiful-voiced') is the Muse who presides over eloquence and epic poetry; so called from the ecstatic harmony of her voice. Hesiod and Ovid called her the "Chief of all Muses". [1]
Over 130 years after his gruesome murders in East London, England, the descendants of his victims are looking to unmask the identity of the serial killer popularly known as Jack the Ripper. The ...
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