Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Rhesus.
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Rhesus (play)
The Attic tragedy (often kept under Euripides' name) restages the Iliad's night raid — Rhesus' arrival and death as a self-contained war play.
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Rhesus of Thrace
The Thracian king whose snow-white horses Odysseus and Diomedes steal remains the Iliad's most famous nocturnal ambush.