Rhea

Rhea

Rhea can mean a few different things:

• Rhea (bird), a type of bird that cannot fly and lives in South America
• Rhea (moon), a moon that orbits the planet Saturn
• Rhea (mythology), a powerful woman from ancient Greek stories
• Rhea (name), a name that some people have

Mythology

• Rhea Silvia, in Roman mythology the mother of the twins Romulus and Remus
• Riadh or Rhea, Celtic mythological hero
• Rhea, mother of Aventinus (mythology) by Hercules

Science and technology

• 577 Rhea, an asteroid
• Green ramie or rhea, a plant that gives us strong fibre
• Rhea (pipeline), a set of scripts used to study tiny living things

Places

• Rhea, Arkansas
• Rhea County, Tennessee
• Rhea Springs, Tennessee, a town that no longer exists
• Île de Ré or Rhea, an island in France

Music

• Rhea, a 1908 opera by Spyridon Samaras
• Rhea, a 1988 piece for 12 saxophones by Francisco Guerrero Marín
• "Rhea", a song on the 1997 album Did Tomorrow Come... by the Polish heavy metal band Sirrah

Ships

• USS Rhea (AMc-58), a coastal minesweeper launched in 1941
• USS Rhea (AMS-52), a minesweeper launched in 1942