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), the first king of Samothrace.[2] Otherwise, the parentage of this eponymous ruler of the island was attributed to Zeus and the nymph Nymphe.[3]
- Rhene, also a nymph who was a paramour of Oileus and mother of his son Medon,[4] although some suggest that Oileus fathered Medon with Alcimache.[5] In one source, Rhene is given as the mother of Oileus' another son, Ajax the Lesser, as well,[6] though the latter is more commonly said to be the son of Oileus' legitimate wife Eriopis.[7]
- ^ Dionysius of Halicarnassus, 1.61.3
- ^ Dionysius of Halicarnassus, 1.61.3; Diodorus Siculus, 5.48.1
- ^ Diodorus Siculus, 5.48.1
- ^ Homer, Iliad 2.728; Tzetzes, Homeric Allegories Prologue 613
- ^ Scholia on Homer, Iliad 13.694
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 97
- ^ Homer, Iliad, 13. 697 with scholia