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Euterpe had by the river Strymon a son Rhesus, whom
Diomedes slew at Troy;1 but some say his mother was Calliope. Thalia had by Apollo the
Corybantes;2 and Melpomene had
by Achelous the Sirens, of whom we shall speak in treating of
Ulysses.3
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1 As to the death of Rhesus, see Hom. Il. 10.474ff.; compare Conon 4. It is the subject of Euripides's tragedy Rhesus; see particularly verses Eur. Rh. 756ff. Euripides represents Rhesus as a son of the river Strymon by one of the Muses （ Eur. Rh. 279, Eur. Rh. 915ff.）, but he does not name the particular Muse who bore him.
2 Very discrepant accounts were given of the parentage of the Corybantes. Some said that they were sons of the Sun by Athena; others that their parents were Zeus and the Muse Calliope; others that their father was Cronus. See Strab. 10.3.19. According to another account, their mother was the Mother of the Gods, who settled them in Samothrace, or the Holy Isle, as the name Samothrace was believed to signify. The name of the father of the Corybantes was kept a secret from the profane vulgar, but was revealed to the initiated at the Samothracian mysteries. See Diod. 3.55.8ff.
3 As to the Sirens, see Apollod. E.7.18ff. Elsewhere （Apollod. 1.7.10） Apollodorus mentions the view that the mother of the Sirens was Sterope.
Apollodorus. Apollodorus, The Library, with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. Includes Frazer's notes.
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