referred to, or just a similarly named Trojan countryman of the most famous Ripheus (the fact that de Barros makes no clear references to the known deeds of the Trojan war past of Ripheus in his book and that in the original myth Ripheus fell in the Greek conquest of the town seems to go against it, but possibly de Barros is basing himself in the Boccaccio tradition of Ripheus having been taken as prisoner by the Greeks having possibly escaped subsequently, and the fact that de Barros refers to Riphane as being morally impressive seem to make an identification of Riphane and Ripheus possible. It could be also debated that post-classical versions of myths making characters dead in the Trojan War survive after it is not unusual, being also told about Hector's son Astyanax to make him survive to found the ancient Gauls and Franks). Namesake Jovian asteroid 188847 Rhipeus, discovered at the Calvin–Rehoboth Observatory in 2006, was named after the Trojan warrior. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 19 August 2008 (). References External links Dante Index Chaucer Name Dictionary Trojans Characters in the Aeneid