Rhebas_(river)

Rhebas (river)

Rhebas (river)

Ancient river of Bithynia

The Rhebas (Ancient Greek: Ῥήβας) was a very small river on the coast of ancient Bithynia, the length of which amounts only to a few miles (or km); it flows into the Euxine, near the entrance of the Bosporus, northeast of Chalcedon.[1][2][3] This little river, which is otherwise of no importance, owes its celebrity to the story of the Argonauts.[4] It also bore the names of Rhesaeus and Rhesus,[2][5] the last of which seems to have arisen from a confusion with the Rhesus mentioned by Homer.

Its site is identified with the Rıva deresi in Asiatic Turkey.[6]

References

  1. [1]
    Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax, p. 34; Dionys. Per. 794; Arrian, Periplus Ponti Euxini p. 13; Marcian, p. 69; Ptolemy. The Geography. Vol. 5.1.5.
  2. [2]
    Pliny. Naturalis Historia. Vol. 6.1.
  3. [3]
    Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v.
  4. [4]
    Orph. Arg. 711; Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 2.650, 789.
  5. [5]
    Solin. 43.
  6. [6]
    Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 53, and directory notes accompanying. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Rhebas". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.

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