Dryops of Oeta
In Greek mythology, Dryops (/ˈdraɪ.ɒps/, Ancient Greek: Δρύοψ, "oak-face", "wood-face" or "wood-eater") was the king of the Dryopians.
Family[]
Dryops was the son of the river god Spercheus and the Danaid Polydora,[1] or of Apollo by Dia, daughter of King Lycaon of Arcadia.[2][3] As a newborn infant, he was concealed by Dia in a hollow oak-tree.[4] He had one daughter, Dryope,[5] and also a son Cragaleus.[6]
Reign[]
Dryops had been king of the Dryopes, who derived their name from him. The Asinaeans in Messenia worshipped him as their ancestral hero, and as a son of Apollo, and celebrated a festival in honour of him every other year. His heroum there was adorned with a very archaic statue of the hero. [7] Dryops reigned in the neighborhood of Mount Oeta.[5] The people, original inhabitants of the country from the valley of the Spercheius and Thermopylae, as far as Mount Parnassus.[8] They retained the name after having transferred to Asine in Peloponnesus.[9][10]
Notes[]
- ^ Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses 32
- ^ Tzetzes on Lycophron 480
- ^ Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 1.1213
- ^ Etymologicum Magnum, 288. 33 (under Dryops)
- ^ a b Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses 32
- ^ Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses 4
- ^ Pausanias, Description of Ancient Greec, 4.34.6
- ^ Homeric. Hymn. 6.34.
- ^ Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 4.34.9
- ^ Strabo, Geographica 8.6.13
References[]
- Antoninus Liberalis, The Metamorphoses of Antoninus Liberalis translated by Francis Celoria (Routledge 1992). Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
- Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Strabo, The Geography of Strabo. Edition by H.L. Jones. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Strabo, Geographica edited by A. Meineke. Leipzig: Teubner. 1877. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Homeric Hymns. Cambridge, MA.,Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
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