Rhesus (Rhêsos) was a Thracian king who fought on the side of Trojans in the Iliad. His mother was one of the muses, his father the river god Strymon, and he was raised by fountain nymphs. Rhesus arrived late to Troy, because his country was attacked by Scythia, right after he received word that the Greeks had attacked Illium. He was killed in his tent, and his famous steeds were stolen by Diomedes and Odysseus. The event is portrayed in book 10 of Homer's the Iliad and in the play Rhesus. The Thracians were an Indo-European people, inhabitants of Thrace and adjacent lands (present-day Bulgaria, Romania, northeastern Greece, European Turkey and northwestern asiatic Turkey, eastern Serbia and parts of Republic of Macedonia). ... Walls of the excavated city of Troy This article is about the city of Troy / Ilion as described in the works of Homer, and the location of an ancient city associated with it. ... dklhgjsanvhg fliuvgrtlyegviaeryugtuoahvyhuay g  :-) The Iliad (Greek Ιλιάς, Ilias) tells part of the story of the siege of the city of Ilium, i. ... In Greek mythology, the Muses (Greek Μουσαι, Mousai) are nine archaic goddesses who embody the right evocation of myth, inspired through remembered and improvised song and traditional music and dances. ... The Struma (Bulgarian: Струма, Greek: Strimonis, Turkish: Karasu (meaning black water in Turkish)) is a river in Bulgaria and Greece. ... Hylas and the Nymphs by John William Waterhouse In Greek mythology, a nymph is any member of a large class of female nature entities, sometimes bound to a particular location or landform. ... Scythian warriors, drawn after figures on an electrum cup from the KulOba kurgan burial near Kerch. ... In Greek mythology, Diomêdês (god-like cunning) was the son of Tydeus and Deipyle and a favored hero of Athena. ... Odysseus and the Sirens. ... Bust of Homer in the British Museum For other uses, see Homer (disambiguation). ... dklhgjsanvhg fliuvgrtlyegviaeryugtuoahvyhuay g  :-) The Iliad (Greek Ιλιάς, Ilias) tells part of the story of the siege of the city of Ilium, i. ... Rhesus, possibly 450 BC, was once thought to be the earliest play by Euripides. ...

His name (a Thracian anthroponym) probably derives from PIE *reg-, 'to rule', showing a satem-sound change. Words in English with the suffix -onym (from the Greek onoma which means name) refer to words with a particular property. ... The Satem division of the Indo-European family includes the following branches: Indo-Iranian, Baltic and Slavic, Armenian, Albanian, perhaps also a number of barely documented extinct languages, such as Phrygian, Thracian, and Dacian (see: Indo-European languages). ...