Dryas, a
Thracian prince as son of King
Lycurgus, king of the
Edoni in Thrace. He was killed when Lycurgus went insane[5] and mistook him for a mature trunk of
ivy, a plant holy to the god
Dionysus, whose
cult Lycurgus was attempting to extirpate.[6]
Dryas, father of the aforementioned
Lycurgus, and thus grandfather of the above Dryas.[7]
Dryas, a leader of the
Lapiths against the
Centaurs, and a participant of the battle that began at the wedding of
Pirithous and
Hippodamia, where he killed the Centaur
Rhoetus, who had killed his fellow Lapiths
Corythus and
Euagrus just before that.[8] In Iliad 1,
Nestor numbers Dryas among an earlier generation of heroes of his youth, "the strongest men that Earth has bred, the strongest men against the strongest enemies, a savage mountain-dwelling tribe [i. e. the Centaurs] whom they utterly destroyed", and call him "shepherd of the people".[9] No trace of such an oral tradition, which Homer's listeners would have recognized in Nestor's allusion, survived in literary epic.
Dryas, son of
Orion, a chieftain from
Tanagra. He brought 1000 archers with him to defend
Thebes in the
Seven against Thebes.[15]Ares made use of the fact that Dryas shared his father's hate of
Artemis and her followers, and turned him against
Parthenopaeus and his
Arcadian contingent. Upon killing Parthenopaeus, Dryas was himself felled by an unknown hand.[16]
Conon, Fifty Narrations, surviving as one-paragraph summaries in the Bibliotheca (Library) of Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople translated from the Greek by Brady Kiesling.
Online version at the Topos Text Project.
Sophocles, Sophocles. Vol 1: Oedipus the king. Oedipus at Colonus. Antigone. With an English translation by F. Storr. The Loeb classical library, 20. Francis Storr. London; New York. William Heinemann Ltd.; The Macmillan Company. 1912.
Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
Karl Kerenyi, 1976. Dionysos: Archetypal Image of Indestructible Life (Princeton: Bollingen) Translated by Ralph Manheim.
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Dryas, a
Thracian prince as son of King
Lycurgus, king of the
Edoni in Thrace. He was killed when Lycurgus went insane[5] and mistook him for a mature trunk of
ivy, a plant holy to the god
Dionysus, whose
cult Lycurgus was attempting to extirpate.[6]
Dryas, father of the aforementioned
Lycurgus, and thus grandfather of the above Dryas.[7]
Dryas, a leader of the
Lapiths against the
Centaurs, and a participant of the battle that began at the wedding of
Pirithous and
Hippodamia, where he killed the Centaur
Rhoetus, who had killed his fellow Lapiths
Corythus and
Euagrus just before that.[8] In Iliad 1,
Nestor numbers Dryas among an earlier generation of heroes of his youth, "the strongest men that Earth has bred, the strongest men against the strongest enemies, a savage mountain-dwelling tribe [i. e. the Centaurs] whom they utterly destroyed", and call him "shepherd of the people".[9] No trace of such an oral tradition, which Homer's listeners would have recognized in Nestor's allusion, survived in literary epic.
Dryas, son of
Orion, a chieftain from
Tanagra. He brought 1000 archers with him to defend
Thebes in the
Seven against Thebes.[15]Ares made use of the fact that Dryas shared his father's hate of
Artemis and her followers, and turned him against
Parthenopaeus and his
Arcadian contingent. Upon killing Parthenopaeus, Dryas was himself felled by an unknown hand.[16]
Conon, Fifty Narrations, surviving as one-paragraph summaries in the Bibliotheca (Library) of Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople translated from the Greek by Brady Kiesling.
Online version at the Topos Text Project.
Sophocles, Sophocles. Vol 1: Oedipus the king. Oedipus at Colonus. Antigone. With an English translation by F. Storr. The Loeb classical library, 20. Francis Storr. London; New York. William Heinemann Ltd.; The Macmillan Company. 1912.
Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
Karl Kerenyi, 1976. Dionysos: Archetypal Image of Indestructible Life (Princeton: Bollingen) Translated by Ralph Manheim.
This article includes a list of Greek mythological figures with the same or similar names. If an
internal link for a specific Greek mythology article referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended Greek mythology article, if one exists.