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  2. Rhesus of Thrace - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Dolon (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    Dolon then informed the two Greeks which Trojan allies were living in which tent and what their strengths were. After this, Odysseus went back on his promise and Dolon was decapitated by Diomedes before the two went into the Trojan camp to wreak havoc, slaying Rhesus, king of Thrace, and stealing his valuable horses. [2]

  4. List of kings of Thrace and Dacia - Wikipedia

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    Rhescuporis II, son of Cotys II, in western Thrace, deposed by the Roman emperor Tiberius I, 12–19; Cotys III, son of Rhoemetalces I, in eastern Thrace, killed by his uncle Rhescuporis II, 12–19; married Antonia Tryphaena; Rhoemetalces II, son of Cotys III and Antonia Tryphaena, 19-38; Antonia Tryphaena (Queen), co-ruler of her son ...

  5. List of Homeric characters - Wikipedia

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    Agamemnon (Ἀγαμέμνων), King of Mycenae, supreme commander of the Achaean armies whose actions provoke the feud with Achilles; elder brother of King Menelaus. Ajax or Aias (Αίας), also known as Telamonian Ajax (he was the son of Telamon) and Greater Ajax, was the tallest and strongest warrior (after Achilles) to fight for the Achaeans.

  6. Thracian religion - Wikipedia

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    ' Artemis the queen '). [5] The cult of Bendis in Thrace was performed in open-air rock sanctuaries. [21] Bendis as identified with the Greek Artemis Phōsphoros was the main deity of the city of Kabyle, where was located a Phōsphorion (lit. ' temple of Phosphoros '), [22] and where she enjoyed a cult along with the Thracian "Apollo."

  7. Category:Mythological kings of Thrace - Wikipedia

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  8. Rhesus (play) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. Thracians - Wikipedia

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    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: