Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Strymon.
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Iliad
Homer
Book X and the Thracian allies — Rhesus arrives as Strymon's son, the river-god's name still attached to the king whose horses Odysseus and Diomedes steal by night.
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Rhesus (play)
Euripides (attr.)
The tragedy of Rhesus keeps Strymon as the Thracian king's divine father — the river that marks Thrace's northern edge of the Trojan War.
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Strymon (mythology)
River-god of the Strymon in Thrace — father of Rhesus in Homeric and tragic tradition, a watery boundary between Greece and the north.