Rhodope was the daughter of the river-god Strymon and the mother (by Poseidon) of Athos; elsewhere, of Cicon (by Apollo), the eponymous hero of the Thracian Cicones. In Pseudo-Plutarch Rhodope is the sister and wife of Haemus. Their love for each other was so great that they likened themselves to Hera and Zeus, who punished them for this insolence by turning them into mountains. Servius says that Rhodope and Haemus had a son, Hebrus, from whom the Thracian river took its name..
