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 Rhesus Sources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Rhesus, son of Euterpe (the muse) by Strymon (the river god); some say his mother was Calliope;
Rhesus, son of Strymon by one of the Muses;
Rhesus, son of Strymon by Euterpe, one of the Muses;
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 Rhesus. Who is Rhesus? What is Rhesus? Where is Rhesus? Definition of Rhesus. Meaning of Rhesus.
In Greek mythology, King Rhesus of Thrace fought for Troy during the Trojan War.
Rhesus (Rh) is a blood group (name taken from the Rhesus Monkey).
Matching Rhesus factor blood types as the ABO system is very important and mismatching (i.e.
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 Rhesus 2, Greek Mythology Link.
Rhesus 2 is chiefly remembered because he came from Thrace to defend Troy with great pomp and circumstance, but died on the night of his arrival, without ever engaging in battle.
Such was the end of Rhesus 2, who came to the war with decorated chariot, and ornamented armour, but for having been caught by death unawares, is remembered for all that wasted paraphernalia.
Rhesus 2, it is told, fell in love with her in the course of one of his many trips abroad.
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 ADW: Macaca mulatta: Information
The disproportionately large testicles of male rhesus monkeys, and the increase in size of their testicles during the breeding season, is probably related to the number of times a male can copulate over a short period of time.
For example, rhesus that live in the mountain forests of northern Pakistan feed primarily on clovers during the summer, but during winter when snow covers the ground they are forced to switch to foods with lower nutritional values and higher fiber contents, such as pine needles and oak leaves.
The common name, rhesus monkey, is responsible for the naming of the hereditary blood antigen Rh-factor that was discovered on their red blood cells in 1940.
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 Tekirdağ ve Tarih   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
After the relief of Thrace from the Persian occupation, the Odyrises could achieve to establish a Thracian kingdon in the area from the coastal strip of Tekirdag and the west of Ipsala border gate.
Thrace opened to trade upon the establishment of the Greek colonies in the 7th century BC.
Thrace’s coming under the Roman rule for a great many years began in AD 19 when the Roman emperor Tiberius sent a governor to Thrace.
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 The Internet Classics Archive | Rhesus by Euripides
The very things of which I, too, came to tell thee; for a chieftain of a countless host is on his way to join thee as thy friend and to champion this land.
The number of his host thou couldst not reckon to a sum exact, for it was beyond one's comprehension; many a knight was there, and serried ranks of targeteers, and archers not a few, with countless swarms of light-armed troops, in Thracian garb arrayed, to bear them company.
Let Rhesus in his gilded mail join the allies of this land, thanks to the messenger's report.
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 rhesus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The Rhesus factor associated with a blood type.
The Rhesus Macaque, also known as the Rhesus Monkey.
This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name.
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 EURIPIDES - LoveToKnow Article on EURIPIDES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The subject of the play is the revenge of Hecuba, the widowed queen of Priam, on Polymestor, king of Thrace, who had murdered her youngest son Polydorus, after her daughter Polyzena had already been sacrificed by the Greeks to the shade of Achilles.
The Rhesus is still held by some to be what the didascaliae and the grammarians call ita work of Euripides ~ and.
This drama, narrating the events which preceded and attended the Passion, is a cento of no less than 2610 verses, taken from the plays of Euripides, principally fromthe Bacchae, the Troades and the Rhesus.
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Rhesus King of Thrace who came to the Trojan War as an ally to Troy.
Diomedes and Ulysses raided his camp, murdered Rhesus, and stole the horses to avert this prophecy.
Rhoecus A centaur whom Vergil has placed in the battle between the Lapiths and the centaurs, though he actually comes from the mythic tradition of Atalanta, who killed him along with the centaur Hylaeus when they insulted her.
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Aeneadae The patronymic is used generally to indicate followers of Aeneas; he uses the term in Book 3 to name the inhabitants of his first settlement in Thrace Aeneas The grandson of Assaracus and therefore in a collateral branch of Troy's founding and ruling family, he was the son of Anchises and the goddess Venus.
He seized the horses of Aeneas, and he forced the swift steeds of Rhesus off the pastures before they could graze and drink, hence preventing the fullfilment of the oracle that if the horses were allowed to graze and drink Troy would never be taken.
Servius reports that she was married to Polymestor (king of Thrace, who betrayed his Trojan allies and killed her brother Polydorus).
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 Mares of Diomedes - Wikpedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Diomedes should not to be confused with the hero of the same name, who was from Argo, and stole horses from the king of Thrace, who fought in the Trojan War.
They belonged to the giant Diomedes, King of Thrace, a son of Ares and Cyrene who lived on the shores of the Black Sea.
According to the Trojan War epics, King Diomedes, the hero of Argo, who fought against the god Ares during the war, stole horses from the stables of King Rhesus of Thrace.
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 Rhesus
Severe atherosclerosis in rhesus monkeys, usually a progressive process, regresses when the blood cholesterol is lowered substantially for an extended period by diet or by drugs.
In one study with aged rhesus monkeys (the best animal model of human aging) researchers at the Salk Institute, La Jolla, California, found that cholinergic neurons in a particular region of the brain exhibited age-related shrinking and loss of the ability to make acetylcholine (Smith et al., 1999).
The investigators were able to reverse most of the shrinkage and loss of cholinergic properties in the monkeys by using specialized cells called fibroblasts that were genetically modified to secrete NGF.
www.websters-online-dictionary.org /definition/Rhesus   (945 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Rhesus
Rhesus Monkey, macaque found throughout India and Nepal, eastern Afghanistan, and northeastern China and Indochina, and held sacred by the Hindus.
Macaque, common name for certain monkeys that live in a great variety of habitats, primarily in Asia.
The macaque known as the rhesus monkey, much...
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 Diomedes 2, Greek Mythology Link.
This son of the Trojan seer Laocoon 2 was either killed by Diomedes 2, or by certain serpents sent by the gods.
But in the company of Odysseus, he employed stealth and treachery too, as when he murdered King Rhesus 2 of Thrace, a Trojan ally, while he slept.
It was after questioning him that they learned everything about Rhesus 2 and the positions of the Thracians.
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 Calliope --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
At the behest of Zeus, the king of the gods, she judged the dispute between the goddesses Aphrodite and Persephone over Adonis.
In most accounts she and King Oeagrus of Thrace were the parents of Orpheus, the lyre-playing hero.
She was also loved by the god Apollo, by whom she had two sons, Hymen and Ialemus.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9018709   (712 words)

  
 Muse Calliope
Calliope and King Oeagrus of Thrace were the parents of Orpheus.
Other versions of the myth say she was the mother of Rhesus, king of Thrace, or the mother of Linus, inventor of melody and rhythm.
Orpheus son of Oeagrus and the Muse Calliope, from Thrace.
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 Rhesus - Unipedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Euripides, 3 : Alcestis, Daughters of Troy, the Phoenician Women, Iphigenia at Aulis, Rhesus (Penn Greek Drama Series)
Euripides IV;: Rhesus; The Suppliant Women; Orestes; Iphigenia in Aulis (The Complete Greek tragedies, vol.
On the Lipin and Pigment in the Corpus Luteum of the Rhesus Monkey (Contributions to Embryology, No 193)
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 wikien.info: Main_Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
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Iliad X, 435The Rhesus factor associated with a blood type.The Rhesus Macaque, also known as the Rhesus Monkey.
Rhesus MacaqueConservation status: Lower Risk (nt) Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Primates Family: Cercopithecidae Genus: Macaca Species: M. mulatta Binomial name Macaca mulattaZimmermann, 1780 The Rhesus Macaque (Macaca mula..
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 Classics Latin Greek Teaching Aids.
He went with Ulysses to steal the Palladium from the temple of Minerva at Troy; and assisted in murdering Rhesus king of Thrace, and carrying away his horses.
Altars were raised to Diomedes, as to a god, one of which Strabo mentions at Timavus.
It was one of the labours of Hercules to destroy him; and accordingly the hero, attended with some of his friends, attacked the inhuman tyrant, and gave him to be devoured by his own horses, which he had fed so barbarously.
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 The Baldwin Project: The Iliad for Boys and Girls by Alfred J. Church
And in the midst of the company lay King Rhesus, with his chariot at his side, and the horses tethered to the rail of the chariot.
Twelve men he slew, and as he slew them, Ulysses dragged thir bodies out of the way, that there might be a clear road for the horses, for horses are wont to start aside when they see a dead body lying in the way.
And "these maybe," so he thought to himself, "are not used to war." Twelve men did Diomed slay, and King Rhesus the thirteenth, as he lay and panted in his sleep, for he had a bad dream at the very time Diomed slew him.
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 Dictionary: Antimache to Arsippe, Greek Mythology Link.
Arganthone is the famous huntress from Cius, a city in northern Mysia near Mount Arganthonius (Turkish city of Gemlik), who fell in love with Rhesus 2, the chieftain who came from Thrace to fight at Troy and died the day after his arrival.
When she heard that Rhesus 2 had perished, she let herself starve to death [Parth.36].
A warrior in the army of Dionysus 2 during the Indian War, killed by King Deriades of India [Nonn.32.187].
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 Rhesus E-book by Euripides
450 BC RHESUS by Euripides translated by E. Coleridge Electronically Enhanced Text (c) Copyright 1996, World Library(R) DRAMATIS PERSONAE - Chorus of Trojan Sentinels Hector Aeneas Dolon Messenger, a shepherd Rhesus Odysseus Diomedes Paris Athena The Muse The Charioteer of Rhesus RHESUS - Before Hector's tent at the gates of Troy.
To Hector's couch away, one of you wakeful squires that tend the prince, to see if he have any fresh tidings from the warriors who were set to guard the assembled host during the fourth watch of the night.
Didst say that Rhesus was setting foot in MESSENGER.
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 Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, page 188   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
When the Achgeans fly from the field, he throws himself boldly in the path of Hector, and is only checked by the lightning of Zeus, which falls in front of his chariot.
In the night after the unsuccessful battle he goes out with Odysseus to explore, kills Colon, the Trojan spy, and murders the sleeping Rhesus, king of Thrace, who had just come to Troy, with twelve of his warriors.
In the post-Homeric story, he makes his way again, in company with Odysseus, by an underground passage into the acropolis of Troy, and thence steals the Palladium.
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 The Love Books of Ovid: THE ART OF LOVE: Book II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
One day they were standing on the seashore: the fair nymph was begging him to tell her how the king of Thrace met his cruel death.
Say this is my camp, farther along is the plain" (and he drew it) "which we stained with the blood of Dolon who tried to steal the horses of Achilles by night.
There stood the tents of Rhesus, king of Thrace, and it was along there that I rode back with the horses that had been stolen from him." And so he was going on with his narrative, when suddenly a wave came and washed away Troy and Rhesus, together with his camp.
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 Ovid Amores   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
MYTHICAL ALLUSIONS: Ovid illustrates his point by referring to the Trojan War, the most famous of mythical battles (fought over a beatiful woman, Helen!).
RHESUS OF THRACE was a Trojan ally ruthlessly killed in a surprise attack at night; the sneaky Greeks also stole his horses (23-24).
The subject of Homer's Iliad is the anger of ACHILLES, the best of the Greek (ARGIVE) warriors: when the leader of the Greeks (Agamemnon) took away his booty-prize, the young captive BRISEIS, Achilles angrily withdrew from battle, which allowed the Trojans to beat back the Greeks (33-34).
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 THE LILIAD #36
He could have you beheaded without a trial, at the snap of a finger, and you'd have no avenue of appeal.
But on the night before King Rhesus was to enter the city, Diomedes and Odysseus, relying, as the Argives always do, on deception and treachery, apprehended Dolon, our scout, outside the walls as he was gathering intelligence as to the best means of Rhesus' entry into the citadel for the purpose of delivering the horses.
Then he and Odysseus slipped silently into the Thracian camp and slew King Rhesus in his bed while he slept.
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Ulysses, at his return, joins himself with Diomedes, and goes in the night to gain intelligence of the enemy: they enter into their very camp, where, finding the sentinels asleep, they made a great slaughter.
Rhesus, who was just then arrived with recruits from Thrace for the Trojans, was killed in that action.
The sequel of this journal will be inserted in the next article from this place.
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