Later in the Iliad, Rhesus, another Thracian king, makes an appearance.

Late mythographers, such as the author of the Bibliotheca and Servius, describe the Thracian king Rhesus, who appears in the Iliad, as son of Euterpe and the river-god Strymon ; Homer calls him son of Eioneus.

Rhesus of Thrace, a mythological Thracian King, derived his name because of his red hair and is depicted on Greek pottery as having red hair and beard.

Emona is famous for being the legendary birthplace of Thracian king Rhesus, who fought in the Trojan War.

Rhesus or Rhêsos () was a Thracian king who fought on the side of Trojans in Iliad, Book X, where Diomedes and Odysseus stole his team of fine horses during a night raid on the Trojan camp.

Rhesus the Thracian king was himself associated with Bithynia through his love with the Bithynian huntress Arganthone, in the Erotika Pathemata for Love " by Parthenius of Nicaea, chapter 36.

She marries the Illyrian ( or Thracian ) senator Marcian who is crowned as emperor.

They chose Gaius Iulius Verus Maximinus, a Thracian soldier who had worked his way up through the ranks.

Although in his later years, towards the end of the Trojan War, his old opponents took his side again against the Greeks under their queen Penthesilea " of Thracian birth ", who was slain by Achilles.

The Bastarnae provided the casus belli by crossing the Haemus and attacking the Dentheletae, a Thracian tribe who were Roman allies.

* Spartacus was a Thracian auxiliary soldier in the Roman army who deserted but was captured and then enslaved by the Romans.

) a Thracian name, and who never learned to speak more than rudimentary Greek.

His father was a Thracian and his mother Romula was a Dacian woman, who left Dacia because of the Carpians ' attacks.

Their mother was Dorippe, a Thracian woman ransomed by Anius for the price of a horse from the pirates who had kidnapped her.

However, the overall management of Thracian affairs is assumed by the Euboean adventurer, Charidemus, who is connected by marriage with the royal family, and who plays the prominent part in the ensuing negotiations with Athens for the possession of the Thracian Chersonese.

According to Diodorus Siculus ( III. 55 ), Mopsus was a Thracian commander who had lived long before the Trojan War, and along with Sipylus the Scythian, had been driven into exile from Thrace by its king Lycurgus.

Oeagrus is given as the father of Orpheus with mother Calliope ( sometimes Apollo is given as the father ), and he is described as " a Thracian wine-god, who was himself descended from Atlas.

Unlike the other two Sarpedons, this Thracian Sarpedon was not a hero, but an insolent individual who was killed by Heracles.

In Greek mythology, Thamyris (), son of Philammon and the nymph Argiope, was a Thracian singer who was so proud of his skill that he boasted he could outsing the Muses.

* Butes, a Thracian, Boreas ' son, who was hostile towards his stepbrother Lycurgus and was driven out of the country by him.

A notable ruler of the East Thracians was Cersobleptes, who attempted to expand his authority over many of the Thracian tribes.

* Spartacus was a Thracian enslaved by the Romans, who led a large slave uprising in Southern Italy in 73 – 71 BC.

In 315 BC, he joined Cassander, Ptolemy I Soter and Seleucus I Nicator against Antigonus I Monophthalmus, who, however, diverted his attention by stirring up Thracian and Scythian tribes against him.

A red-figure cup ( skyphos ) ( at Tübingen University ), of ca 440-430, seems to commemorate the arrival of the newly-authorized cult ; it shows Themis ( representing traditional Athenian customs ) and a booted and cloaked Bendis, who wears a Thracian fox-skin cap.

Livy also mentions 2, 000 Macedonian and Thracian volunteers, who are left to guard the Roman camp.

The Thyni (; ) were a Thracian tribe who, along with the Bithyni, migrated to the lands that would later be known as Thynia and Bithynia in Anatolia.

The western region of the Balkans, including Albania, Kosovo, and Macedonia was less important to the resolution of the war and the survival of the Ottoman Empire than the Thracian theater, where the Bulgarians fought major battles against the Ottoman forces.

After the peace of Antalcidas ( 387 BC ) he assisted Seuthes, king of Thracian Odrysae, to recover his kingdom, and fought against Cotys, with whom, however, he subsequently concluded an alliance.

Unlike the other three Bulgarian revolutionary organizations active in the interwar period — the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation in Macedonia, the Internal Thracian Revolutionary Organisation in Thrace and the Internal Dobrujan Revolutionary Organization in Dobruja — IWORO did not put up the tactical slogan demanding autonomy for the region but fought “ for the liberation of the Western Outlands and their restoration to Bulgaria ”.

Many Athenians prominent earlier in the century would have lost citizenship, had this law applied to them: Cleisthenes, the founder of democracy, had a non-Athenian mother, and the mothers of Cimon and Themistocles were not Greek at all, but Thracian.

The gladiatorial academy at CIL IV, 4397 was scrawled with graffiti left by the gladiator Celadus Crescens ( Suspirium puellarum Celadus thraex: " Celadus the Thracian makes the girls sigh.

Hippocrates was probably trained at the asklepieion of Kos, and took lessons from the Thracian physician Herodicus of Selymbria.

The men then took concubines from the Thracian mainland opposite, and the spurned women, angry at Aphrodite, killed all the male inhabitants while they slept.

Some accounts place the youth of Midas in Macedonian Bermion ( See Bryges ) In Thracian Mygdonia, A wild rose garden at the foot of Mount Bermion was called by Herodotus " the garden of Midas son of Gordias, where roses grow of themselves, each bearing sixty blossoms and of surpassing fragrance ".

She gives the imperial diadem to the Illyrian ( or Thracian ) officer and senator Marcian, age 58, and is crowned as empress in the Hippodrome at Constantinople in a first religious coronation ceremony.

In 404 BC, the Athenians gather their remaining ships at Aegospotami ( near the Thracian Chersonese ).

* Antigonus crosses the Hellespont and defeats the Celts under the command of Cerethrius near Lysimachia at the neck of the Thracian Chersonese.

Subsequently appointed by the ephors to settle the political dissensions then rife at Byzantium and to protect the city and the neighbouring Greek colonies from Thracian attacks, he made himself tyrant of Byzantium, and, when declared an outlaw and driven thence by a Spartan force, he fled to Cyrus, leaving the garrison to Helixus of Megara ( see Coeratadas ).

Linguistically they are usually regarded as Thracian or as Iranian, or at least to have had an Iranian ruling class.

They are mostly supposed to have been related to either Iranian or Thracian speaking groups, or at least to have been ruled by an Iranian elite.

The tomb of Protesilaus at Elaeus in the Thracian Chersonese is documented in the 5th century, when, during the Persian War, votive treasure deposited at his tomb was plundered by the satrap Artayctes, under permission from Xerxes.

Excavations at nearby Thracian sites have shown uninterrupted occupation from the 7th to the 4th century and close commercial relations with the colony.

The Greek alphabet has been applied to inscriptions in Thracian since at least the 5th century BCE ; the city worshipped a Thracian great god whose cult survived well into the Roman period.

Other cleruchies were established on the Thracian Chersonese following its recapture from the Persian Empire after the Greco-Persian Wars of the 5th century BC, and at Chalcis following that city's defeat in a war with Athens.

One notable cult that is attested from Thrace to Moesia and Scythia Minor is that of the " Thracian horseman ", also known as the " Thracian Heros ", at Odessos ( Varna ) attested by a Thracian name as Heros Karabazmos, a god of the underworld usually depicted on funeral statues as a horseman slaying a beast with a spear.

Inside view of the Thracian Tomb of Sveshtari | Thracian mound tomb at Sveshtari, Bulgaria

The next year ( 277 BC ), Antigonus, sailed to the Hellespont, landing near Lysimachia at the neck of the Thracian Chersonese.