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Template:Greek myth (nymph)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) of Samothrace.[2]
  • Rhene, also a nymph who was a paramour of Oileus and mother of his son Medon,[3] although some suggest that Oileus fathered Medon with Alcimache.[4] In one source, Rhene is given as the mother of Oileus' another son, Ajax the Lesser, as well,[5] though the latter is more commonly said to be the son of Oileus' legitimate wife Eriopis.[6]

Notes

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

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