InGreek mythology,Rhene (Ancient Greek: Ῥήνη) may refer to the following personages:

• Rhene, anymph of MountCyllene.^[1] She was the lover ofHermes and mother by him ofSaon (orSamon), the first king ofSamothrace.^[2] Otherwise, the parentage of this eponymous ruler of the island was attributed toZeus and the nymphNymphe.^[3]
• Rhene, also a nymph who was a paramour ofOileus and mother of his sonMedon,^[4] although some suggest that Oileus fathered Medon withAlcimache.^[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 wifeEriopis.^[7]

• Diodorus Siculus,The Library of History translated byCharles Henry Oldfather. Twelve volumes.Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989. Vol. 3. Books 4.59–8.Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site
• Diodorus Siculus,Bibliotheca Historica. Vol 1-2. Immanel Bekker. Ludwig Dindorf. Friedrich Vogel. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1888–1890.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Dionysus of Halicarnassus,Roman Antiquities. English translation by Earnest Cary in the Loeb Classical Library, 7 volumes. Harvard University Press, 1937–1950.Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site
• Dionysius of Halicarnassus,Antiquitatum Romanarum quae supersunt,Vol I-IV. . Karl Jacoby. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1885.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Gaius Julius Hyginus,Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies.Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Homer,The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924.ISBN 978-0674995796.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Homer,Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920.ISBN 978-0198145318.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.

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