Dryops
Encyclopedia
Dryops may refer to:
In Greek mythology:
- Dryops, a genus of beetles in family Dryopidae
In Greek mythology:
- Dryops, a son of King Priam of Troy
- Dryops (Oeta)Dryops (Oeta)In Greek mythology, Dryops was a son of the river god Spercheus and the Danaid Polydora. He reigned in the neighborhood of Mount Oeta and was believed to have given his name to the people Dryopes; the people, original inhabitants of the banks of River Spercheios, retained the name after having...
, a king of Oeta & son of river-god SpercheusSpercheusIn Greek mythology, Spercheus or Spercheios was the name of a river in Thessaly , and of the god of that river. According to Antoninus Liberalis, Cerambus was punished for claiming that the nymphs of Mount Othrys were daughters of Spercheus by Deino... - Dryops, a son of ApolloApolloApollo is one of the most important and complex of the Olympian deities in Greek and Roman mythology...
by Dia - Dryops, a companion of AeneasAeneasAeneas , in Greco-Roman mythology, was a Trojan hero, the son of the prince Anchises and the goddess Aphrodite. His father was the second cousin of King Priam of Troy, making Aeneas Priam's second cousin, once removed. The journey of Aeneas from Troy , which led to the founding a hamlet south of...