Dryops (eponym)
Dryops ( ancient Greek Δρύοψ . Drýops "oak man"), namesake of the Dryoper , is a figure in Greek mythology .
He was the son of Danaide Polydora and a river god - depending on the tradition of Peneios or Spercheios . The children of Dryops are named Dryope , Kragaleus and Theiodamas .
With the migration of the Dryoper and their settlement in the Peloponnese , the legend also changed. Dryops was later included in the Peloponnesian genealogy and referred to as the son of the Arcadian king Lykaon (or Apollon ) and Dia , who hid the newborn boy in an oak ( Greek: Δρῦς / Drys ). In these legends, Dryops' daughter Dryope became mother of the shepherd god Pan of Hermes .
literature
- Jakob Escher-Bürkli : Dryops 1. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume V, 2, Stuttgart 1905, Col. 1749 f.
- Paul Weizsäcker : Dryops 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1.1, Leipzig 1886, column 1204 f. ( Digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans von Geisau : Polydora . In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 4, Munich 1979, column 993.
- ↑ Scholion on Lycophron 480; Scholion to Apollonios of Rhodes 1, 1213.