In Homer the father of Rhesus, king of the Thracians who came to Troy with the fairest horses the spy Dolon had ever seen — whiter than snow, and swift as the winds.1
When Dolon, caught by Odysseus and Diomedes, betrayed the disposition of the allies, he named the Thracians under their king Rhesus son of Eïoneus — new comers, camped outermost of all, with horses fairer and swifter than any others in the host. So Homer gives Rhesus a mortal father and says nothing of a divine mother.2
Apollodorus instead makes Rhesus the son of the river-god Strymon and the Muse Euterpe — or, as the same hand admits, of Calliope. The Eïoneus of the *Iliad* belongs to the epic's mortal frame; the Muse-and-river genealogy belongs to the mythographer's catalogue.3⚖
He is not the Eïoneus whom Hector slew in Book 7 beneath the well-wrought helm of bronze, nor Deioneus father of Cephalus in the older genealogies — only the Thracian father named in the night-raid episode.4
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