Rhamnus may refer to:
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Rhamnus (city)
Rhamnous ( grc, Ῥαμνοῦς, Rhamnoûs; el, Ραμνούς, Ramnoús, label=Modern Greek), also Ramnous or Rhamnus, was an ancient Greek city in Attica situated on the coast, overlooking the Euboean Strait. Its impressive ruins lie northwe ...
, or Rhamnous, an ancient Greek city in Attica
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Rhamnus (Crete) Rhamnus or Rhamnous ( grc, Ῥαμνοῦς) was a harbour on the west coast of ancient Crete near the promontory Chersonesus. Pliny the Elder
Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23/2479), called Pliny the Elder (), was a Roman author, naturalist and n ...
, or Rhamnous, an ancient Greek town in Crete
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Nisus and Euryalus
In Greek and Roman mythology, Nisus ( grc, Νῖσος, Nîsos) and Euryalus (; grc, Εὐρύαλος, Eurýalos, broad) are a pair of friends and lovers serving under Aeneas in the ''Aeneid'', the Augustan epic by Virgil. Their foray among ...
in book IX of
The Aeneid
The ''Aeneid'' ( ; la, Aenē̆is or ) is a Latin epic poem, written by Virgil between 29 and 19 BC, that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who fled the fall of Troy and travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the R ...
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''Rhamnus'' (plant) or buckthorns, a plant genus
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9316 Rhamnus, a main-belt asteroid discovered in 1988
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Mount Rhamnus, a mountain in Antarctica
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