According to the mythology outlined by Virgil in the Aeneid, Romulus and Remus were both descendants of Aeneas through their mother Rhea Silvia, making Aeneas progenitor of the Roman people.

In Greek mythology, the constellation is sometimes identified as Amalthea, the goat that suckled the infant Zeus after his mother Rhea saved him from being devoured by his father Cronos ( in Greek mythology ).

Hera's mother was Rhea and her father Cronus.

Demeter is not present ; her mother Rhea attends.

He was saved by his mother Rhea, who concealed him among a flock of lambs and pretended to have given birth to a colt, which she gave to Cronus to devour.

* Rhea Silvia, in Roman mythology the mother of the twins Romulus and Remus

The mother goddess Rhea, Zeus ' mother, deceived her brother consort Cronus by giving him a stone wrapped to look like a baby instead of Zeus.

In Homer, Rhea is the mother of the gods, though not a universal mother like Cybele, the Phrygian Great Mother, with whom she was later identified.

Rhea is named after the Titan Rhea of Greek mythology, " mother of the gods ".

Their mother was Rhea Silvia, daughter to Numitor, king of Alba Longa.

Their mother Rhea Silvia and the river-god Tiberinus witness the moment.

They restored Numitor as king, paid due honours to their mother Rhea and left to found their own city, accompanied by a motley band of fugitives, runaway slaves, and any who wanted a second chance in a new city with new rulers.

Rhea, Zeus ' mother and Cronus ' wife, deceived Cronus by giving him a stone wrapped to look like a baby instead of Zeus, whom she instead gave to Adamanthea to nurse.

78, Pan is associated with a mother goddess, perhaps Rhea or Cybele ; Pindar refers to virgins worshipping Cybele and Pan near the poet's house in Boeotia.

They were chthonic daimones of Mount Ida, who clashed their spears and shields to drown out the wails of infant Zeus, whom they received from the Great Goddess, Rhea, his mother.

10, 3, 21 ) that in Lemnos, the mother ( there was no father ) of the Cabeiri was Kabeiro ( Greek: Καβειρώ ) herself, a daughter of Proteus ( one of the " old men of the sea ") and a goddess whom the Greeks might have called Rhea.

Lycophron ( 1191 ) relates that Zeus ' mother, that is Rhea, is skilled in wrestling, having cast the former queen Eurynome into Tartarus.

Rhea Silvia ( also written as Rea Silvia ), and also known as Ilia, was the mythical mother of the twins Romulus and Remus, who founded the city of Rome.

He cites and rejects Varro's proposition that the Sabines named the hill after the nearby Aventus river ; likewise, he believes, the Aventinus fathered by Hercules on Rhea Silvia was likely named after the Aventine hill, not vice versa.

* Aventinus ( mythology ), son of Hercules and Rhea

Other animals found in the relatively open habitats of the high Andes include the huemul, cougar, foxes in the genus Pseudalopex, and, for birds, certain species of tinamous ( notably members of the genus Nothoprocta ), Andean Goose, Giant Coot, flamingos ( mainly associated with hypersaline lakes ), Lesser Rhea, Andean Flicker, Diademed Sandpiper-plover, miners, sierra-finches and diuca-finches.

* Rhea ( bird ), a large flightless bird of southern South America

* Rhea ( moon ), a moon of Saturn

* Rhea ( mythology ), a Titan in Greek mythology

* Rhea Bailey ( b. 1983 ), English actress

* Rhea Carmi ( b. 1942 ), Israeli artist

* Rhea Durham, ( b. 1978 ), American model

* Rhea Fairbairn ( 1890 – 1953 ), Canadian tennis player

* Rhea Haines ( 1894 – 1964 ), American actress

* Rhea Mitchell ( 1890 – 1957 ), American actress

* Rhea Perlman ( b. 1948 ), American television actress

* Rhea Santos ( b. 1979 ), Filipina journalist

* Margaret Rhea Seddon ( b. 1947 ), American astronaut

* Rhea Tregebov ( b. 1953 ), Canadian poet and children's author

* Caroline Rhea ( b. 1964 ), stand-up comedian, television actress and host

* Timothy Rhea ( b. 1967 ), American conductor, and Director of Bands at Texas A & M University

* James Rhea ( 1791 – 1812 ), American soldier

* La Julia Rhea ( 1908 – 92 ), American opera singer

* John Rhea ( 1753 – 1832 ), United States Congressman

* William Francis Rhea ( 1858 – 1931 ), U. S. Congressman from Virginia

* John Stockdale Rhea ( 1855 – 1924 ), U. S. Congressman from Kentucky

* Rhea ( 1908 ), an opera by Spyridon Samaras