Rhesus

Family: Thracians · Role: king · First appears: BOOK X

🌐 Also appears in: Greek Mythology — A Family Orrery (as Rhesus) · Greek Tragedy — The Same Myth, Three Voices (as Rhesus)

Life events

• Diomed kills Rhesus and twelve Thracian soldiers while Ulysses captures their horses.(BOOK X)
  • With: Diomed
  • “When the son of Tydeus came to the king, he killed him too”
• Ulysses and Diomed return to the Achaean ships with Rhesus’s horses and the slain scout’s spoils.(BOOK X · 📍 the ships of the Achaeans)
  • With: Ulysses Diomed
  • “Ulysses answered, “Nestor son of Neleus, honour to the Achaean name, heaven, if it so will, can give us even better horses than these”

BOOK X

• parent: Eioneus “Rhesus son of Eioneus for their king”
• with Hippocoon (interaction) “Hippocoon, a counsellor of the Thracians and a noble kinsman of Rhesus”
• enemies with Diomed “Diomed killed their king with the twelve bravest of his companions.”
• enemies with Ulysses “Diomed killed their king with the twelve bravest of his companions.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Iliad. Made with Rho MD.