Rhesus

Family: Trojan · Role: ally · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 1.3

🌐 Also appears in: The Iliad (as Rhesus) · Greek Tragedy — The Same Myth, Three Voices (as Rhesus)

Rhesus is a Trojan ally. Apollodorus says that Euterpe bore him by the river Strymon, though some traditions name Calliope as his mother; Hesiod’s genealogy lists him among the offspring of Tethys and Ocean.

At Troy, Rhesus was an enemy of Diomedes and Odysseus. During a night raid, the two spies killed Dolon and Rhesus, the Thracian: “whom Diomedes slew at Troy”.

Relationship record

Life events

• Odysseus and Diomedes killed Dolon and Rhesus during a night raid.(Apollodorus, Epitome 4)
  • With: Odysseus Diomedes Dolon
  • “And night coming on, they sent Ulysses and Diomedes as spies; and these killed Dolon, son of Eumelus, and Rhesus, the Thracian”

Apollodorus, Library 1.3

• parent: Euterpe “Euterpe had by the river Strymon a son Rhesus, whom Diomedes slew at Troy ; but some say his mother was Calliope.”
• parent: Strymon “Euterpe had by the river Strymon a son Rhesus, whom Diomedes slew at Troy ; but some say his mother was Calliope.”
• parent: Calliope “Euterpe had by the river Strymon a son Rhesus, whom Diomedes slew at Troy ; but some say his mother was Calliope.”
• with Diomedes (interaction) “whom Diomedes slew at Troy ;”
• enemies with Diomedes “whom Diomedes slew at Troy”

Hesiod, Theogony 295-404

• parent: Tethys “Strymon, and Meander, and the fair stream of Ister, and Phasis, and Rhesus”
• parent: Ocean “Strymon, and Meander, and the fair stream of Ister, and Phasis, and Rhesus”

Apollodorus, Epitome 4

• enemies with Odysseus “they sent Ulysses and Diomedes as spies; and these killed Dolon, son of Eumelus, and Rhesus, the Thracian”
• enemies with Diomedes “they sent Ulysses and Diomedes as spies; and these killed Dolon, son of Eumelus, and Rhesus, the Thracian”
• with Odysseus (Odysseus killed Rhesus.) “And night coming on, they sent Ulysses and Diomedes as spies; and these killed Dolon, son of Eumelus, and Rhesus, the Thracian”
• with Diomedes (Diomedes killed Rhesus.) “And night coming on, they sent Ulysses and Diomedes as spies; and these killed Dolon, son of Eumelus, and Rhesus, the Thracian”

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