In Greek mythology, Dryops ( /ˈdraɪ.ɒps/, Ancient Greek: Δρύοψ means 'oak-face', 'wood-face' or 'wood-eater') was the king of the Dryopians.
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, [1] and also a son Cragaleus. [5]
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. [6] Dryops reigned in the neighborhood of Mount Oeta. [1] The people, original inhabitants of the country from the valley of the Spercheius and Thermopylae, as far as Mount Parnassus. [7] They retained the name after having transferred to Asine in Peloponnesus. [8] [9]
In Greek mythology, Dryops ( /ˈdraɪ.ɒps/, Ancient Greek: Δρύοψ means 'oak-face', 'wood-face' or 'wood-eater') was the king of the Dryopians.
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, [1] and also a son Cragaleus. [5]
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. [6] Dryops reigned in the neighborhood of Mount Oeta. [1] The people, original inhabitants of the country from the valley of the Spercheius and Thermopylae, as far as Mount Parnassus. [7] They retained the name after having transferred to Asine in Peloponnesus. [8] [9]