Rhene (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Rhene (Ancient Greek: Ῥήνη) may refer to the following personages:

• Rhene, a nymph of Mount Cyllene.^[1] She was the lover of Hermes and mother by him of Saon (or Samon), the first king of Samothrace.^[2] Otherwise, the parentage of this eponymous ruler of the island was attributed to Zeus and the nymph Nymphe.^[3]
• Rhene, also a nymph who was a paramour of Oileus and mother of his son Medon,^[4] although some suggest that Oileus fathered Medon with Alcimache.^[5] In one source, Rhene is given as the mother of Oileus' another son, Ajax the Lesser, as well,^[6] though the latter is more commonly said to be the son of Oileus' legitimate wife Eriopis.^[7]

Notes

1. Dionysius of Halicarnassus, 1.61.3
2. Dionysius of Halicarnassus, 1.61.3; Diodorus Siculus, 5.48.1
3. Diodorus Siculus, 5.48.1
4. Homer, Iliad 2.728; Tzetzes, Homeric Allegories Prologue 613
5. Scholia on Homer, Iliad 13.694
6. Hyginus, Fabulae 97
7. Homer, Iliad, 13. 697 with scholia

References

• Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History translated by Charles Henry Oldfather. Twelve volumes. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989. Vol. 3. Books 4.59–8. Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site
• Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica. Vol 1-2. Immanel Bekker. Ludwig Dindorf. Friedrich Vogel. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1888–1890. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Dionysus of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities. English translation by Earnest Cary in the Loeb Classical Library, 7 volumes. Harvard University Press, 1937–1950. Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site
• Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitatum Romanarum quae supersunt, Vol I-IV. . Karl Jacoby. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1885. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Homer, The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. ISBN 978-0674995796. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. ISBN 978-0198145318. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.