Dryops (eponym of the Dryopians)
In Greek mythology, Dryops (/ˈdraɪ.ɒps/, Ancient Greek: Δρύοψ, romanized: Drúops, lit. 'man of oak')[1] was the eponym of the Dryopians.
Family
Dryops was the son of a river god either named as Spercheus[2] or Peneus[3] and the Danaid Polydora; or of Apollo by Dia, daughter of King Lycaon of Arcadia.[4][5] As a newborn infant, he was concealed by Dia in a hollow oak-tree.[6] He had one daughter, Dryope,[2] and also a son Cragaleus.[7]
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.[8] Dryops reigned in the neighborhood of Mount Oeta.[2] The people, original inhabitants of the country from the valley of the Spercheius and Thermopylae, as far as Mount Parnassus.[9] They retained the name after having transferred to Asine in Peloponnesus.[10][11]
Notes
- ↑ "Dryops". Brill's New Pauly. p. 729.
- 1 2 3 Antoninus Liberalis, 32 as cited in Nicander's Metamorphoses
- ↑ Scholia ad Apollonius Rhodius, 1.1212 as cited from Pherecydes
- ↑ Tzetzes on Lycophron, 480
- ↑ Scholia ad Apollonius Rhodius, 1.1218
- ↑ Etymologicum Magnum 288.33 under Dryops
- ↑ Antoninus Liberalis, 4 as cited in Nicander's Metamorphoses
- ↑ Pausanias, 4.34.6
- ↑ Homeric Hymn 6.34
- ↑ Pausanias, 4.34.9
- ↑ Strabo, 8.6.13
References
- Antoninus Liberalis, The Metamorphoses of Antoninus Liberalis translated by Francis Celoria (Routledge 1992). Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Bloch, René (2004). "Dryops". In Cancik, Hubert; Schneider, Helmuth (eds.). Brill's New Pauly: encyclopaedia of the ancient world. Vol. 4. Brill. p. 729. ISBN 90-04-12267-2.
- 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.