In Greek mythology, Dryops (, ) was the eponym of the Dryopians.
Family Dryops was the son of a river god either named as SpercheusAntoninus Liberalis, 32 as cited in Nicander's Metamorphoses or PeneusScholia ad Apollonius Rhodius, 1.1212 as cited from Pherecydes and the Danaid Polydora; or of Apollo by Dia, daughter of King Lycaon of Arcadia.Tzetzes on Lycophron, 480Scholia ad Apollonius Rhodius, 1.1218 As a newborn infant, he was concealed by Dia in a hollow oak-tree.Etymologicum Magnum 288.33 under Dryops He had one daughter, Dryope, and also a son Cragaleus.Antoninus Liberalis, 4 as cited in Nicander's Metamorphoses
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.Pausanias, 4.34.6 Dryops reigned in the neighborhood of Mount Oeta. The people, original inhabitants of the country from the valley of the Spercheius and Thermopylae, as far as Mount Parnassus.Homeric Hymn 6.34 They retained the name after having transferred to Asine in Peloponnesus.Pausanias, 4.34.9Strabo, 8.6.13
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