Dryope (mother of Pan)
Dryope ( Greek Δρυόπη ) is a figure from Greek mythology .
In Homer , a daughter of the king is Dryops mentioned that Hermes the shepherd god Pan gives birth. Now there is already a Dryope in the Arcadian story , but who has Amphissus as her son.
Virgil, in turn, writes of Dryope as a lover of Faunus , who becomes the mother of the Rutulian Tarquitus .
Since the Italian Faunus was equated with the Greek Pan, the legend has presumably changed over time, as a result of which Dryope's role changed from the mother of a shepherd god to his lover.
literature
- Paul Weizsäcker : Dryope 2 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1.1, Leipzig 1886, column 1204 ( digitized version ).
- Hans von Geisau : Dryope 2. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 2, Stuttgart 1967, column 172.
- Jakob Escher-Bürkli : Dryope 2. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume V, 2, Stuttgart 1905, Sp. 1747.