A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

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longing to the earliest period in the history of assigned the whole of Thrace to Rhoemetalces,
Greek art, is mentioned as the head of a family of and gave Armenia Minor to the son of Cotys.
Samian artists,the accounts respectingwhom present [CoTYs, No. 6.] (Dion Cass. lix. 12; Tac. Ann.
considerable difficulties, the discussion of which be- ii. 67, iii. 38, iv. 5, 47, xi. 9.) On the obverse of
longs more properly to the articles TELECLES and the annexed coin is the head of Caligula, and on
THEODORUS. It is enough, in this place, to give the reverse that of Rhoemetalces. [XVW. B. D.]
as the most probable result of the inquiry, the
genealogy by which Muller (Arch, d. Kunst.
~ 60) exhibits the succession and dates of these
artists.
Rhoecus, about 01. 35, B. C. 640.
Theodorus and Telecles, about 01. 45, B. C. 600.
Theodorus, about 01. 55, B. c. 560.
COIN OF RHOEMETALCES II., KING OF THRACE.
Respecting Rhoecus himself we are informed
that he was the first architect of the great temple RHOEMETALCES, king of Bosporus, in the
of Hera at Samos (Herod. iii. 60), which Theo- reigns of Hadrian and Antoninus Pius, since the
dores completed; and also, in conjunction with heads of both of these emperors appear on his
Sinilis and Theodorus, of the labyrinth at Lemnos coins. He is mentioned by Capitolinus in his life
(Plin. H. N. xxxvi. 13, s. 19. ~ 3); that he, and of Antoninus Pins (c. 9). It is the head of the
the members of his family who succeeded him, same emperor which is on the obverse of the anillvented the art of casting statues in bronze and nexed coin. (Eckhel, vol. ii. p. 378.)
iron (Pans. viii. 14. ~ 5, s. 8; Plin. fI. N. xxxv.
12, s. 43), and that there still existed, at the time -
of Pausanias, in the temple of Artemis at Ephesus,
a bronze statue of rude antique workmanship, -
which was said to represent night, and to have
been the work of Rhoecus. (Paus. x. 38. ~ 3,
RHOEMETALCES I., ('Poo,~7raAKtc7s), king!
of Thrace, was the brother of Cotys [No. 4], of
Rhascuporis [No. 2], and uncle and guardian of COIN OF RHOEMETALCES, KING OF BOSPORUS.
Rhascuporis [No. 3]. On his nephew's death,
B.C. 13, Rhoemetalces was expelled from Thrace, RHOEO ('Por). 1. A daughter of Staphylus
and driven into the Chersonesus, by Vologaeses, and Chrysothemis, was beloved by Apollo. When
chief of the Thracian Bessi. About two years her father discovered that she was with child, he
afterwards L. Piso, praetor of Pamphylia, drove put her in a chest, and exposed her to the waves
the Bessi from the Chersonesus, and Rhoemetalces of the sea. The chest floated to the coast of
received from Augustus his nephew's dominions, Euboea (or Delos), where Rhoeo gave birth to
with some additions, since Tacitus calls him king Anius (Diod. v. 62; Tzetz. ead Lycopa.. 570). Subof all Thrace. On his death Augustus divided his sequently she was married to Zarex. (Tzetz. ad
kingdom between his son Cotys [No. 5], and his Lycoph. 580.)
brother Rhascuporis [No. 2]. (Tac. Ann. ii. 64 2. A daughter of the river-god Scamander, beDion Cass. liv. 20, 34; comp. Vell. Pat. ii. 98.) cameby LaomedonthemotherofTithonus. (Tzetz.
On the obverse of the annexed coin is the head of ad Lycoph. 18.) [L. S.]
Augustus, and on the reverse that of Rhoeme- RHOETEIA ('PoLrela), a daughter of the
talces and his wife. [W. B. D.] Thracian king Sithon and Achiroe, a daughter of
Neilos. She was a sister of Pallene, and the
Trojan promontory of Rhoeteium was believed to
have derived its name from her. (Tzetz. ad Lycoph. 583, 1161; Steph. Byz. s. v.) [L. S.]
whom Greek poets call Rhoecus. At the wedding
of Peirithous he was wounded by Dryas and took
to flight. (Ov. Mlet. xii. 300; comp. Virg. Geoyg.
ii. 456.)
2. One of the giants who was slain by Bacchus
(Horat. Carm. ii. 19, 23); he is usually called
COIN OF RHOEMETALCES I., KING OF THRACE. Eurytus. (Apollod. i. 6. ~ 2; comp. Virg. i. c.)
3. A companion of Phineas, was slain by PerRHOEMETALCES II. ('Pouqr'Tad'KE), king seus. (Ov. Met. v. 38.)
of Thrace, was the son of Rhascuporis [No. 2] and 4. A mythical king of the Marrubians in Italy,
nephew of the preceding. On the deposition of his who married a second wife Casperia, with whom
father, whose ambitious projects he had opposed, his son Anchemolus committed incest. In order
Rhoemetalces shared with the sons of Cotys [No. 5] to escape from his father's vengeance, Anchemolus
the kingdom of Thrace. He remained faithful to fled to king Daunus. (Serv. ad Aen. x. 388.) [L. S.]
Rome, and aided in putting down the Thracian RHO'PALUS ('Po'raTos), a son of Heracles
malcontents in A.D. 26. Caligula, in'A.. 38, and father of Phaestus (Ptolem. Heph. 3; E