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For other uses of Dryas or Drias see Dryas (disambiguation)
Dryas (disambiguation)

Dryas can mean* Dryas, a Thrace of Greek mythology.* Dryas , a genus of plants.* Dryas, a monotypic genus of butterflies containing the single species Dryas iulia...
, Drias (disambiguation)
Drias (disambiguation)

Drias may refer to*Dryas, characters in Greek mythology*Drias, Kavala, a former village in Greece...
, Dryad (disambiguation)
Dryad (disambiguation)

Dryads are a form of mythological Greek nymph associated with trees. Dryad may also refer to* HMS Dryad, any one of several ships of the Royal Navy...
, and Hamadryad (disambiguation)
Hamadryad (disambiguation)

The term hamadryad has several uses.* Generally, a hamadryad is a kind of nymph in Greek mythology; see Hamadryad.* Hamadryad is another term for the king cobra....
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Dryas ("oak") is the name of nine characters in Greek mythology

Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the Ancient Greece concerning their List of Greek mythological figures#Immortals and Greek hero cult, Cosmology#Metaphysical cosmology, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices....

1. Dryas was the son of King Lycurgus

Lycurgus (Thrace)

Lycurgus was a king of the Edoni in Thrace, and the son of Dryas, the "oak" . He banned the cult of Dionysus. When Lycurgus heard that Dionysus was in his kingdom, he imprisoned Dionysus' followers, the Maenads....
, king of the Edoni

Edoni

The Edoni were a Thracian people who dwelt mostly between the Nestus and the Strymon rivers in southern Thrace, but also once dwelt west of the Strymon at least as far as the Axios....
in Thrace

Thrace

Thrace is a historical and geographic area in southeast Europe. Today the name Thrace designates a region spread over southern Bulgaria , northeastern Greece , and European Turkey ....
; "Shepherd of the People", Nestor calls him (Iliad i.263). He was killed when his father went insane and mistook him for a mature trunk of ivy

Ivy

Hedera is a genus of 15 species of climbing or ground-creeping evergreen woody plants in the family Araliaceae, native to the Macaronesia, western, central and southern Europe, northwestern Africa and across central-southern Asia east to Japan....
, a plant holy to the god Dionysus

Dionysus

In classical mythology, Dionysus or Dionysos , is the God of wine, the inspirer of ritual madness and ecstasy, and a major figure of Greek mythology, and one of the twelve Olympians, among whom Greek mythology treated Dionysus as a late arrival....
, whose cult Lycurgus was attempting to extirpate.

Resisting the arrival of the god, Lycurgus had pursued all of Dionysus' followers, the Maenads, with an ox-goad and imprisoned them ; Dionysus was forced to flee to the undersea grotto of Thetis

Thetis

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Dryas ("oak") is the name of nine characters in Greek mythology

Greek mythology

Lycurgus (Thrace)

Edoni

The Edoni were a Thracian people who dwelt mostly between the Nestus and the Strymon rivers in southern Thrace, but also once dwelt west of the Strymon at least as far as the Axios....
in Thrace

Thrace

Ivy

Dionysus

Thetis

Silver-footed Thetis , disposer or "placer" , is encountered in Greek mythology mostly as a sea nymph, one of the fifty Nereids, daughters of the ancient one of the seas with shape-shifting abilities who survives in the historical vestiges of most later Greek myths as Proteus ....
the sea nymph. Homer (Iliad vi) says that Zeus struck him blind— Dryas, the oak, is sacred to Zeus. The compiler of Bibliotheke (iii.5.i) says that Dionysus drove Lycurgus insane. In his madness, Lycurgus pruned the corpse of Dryas of its nose, ears, fingers and toes: the land of Thrace dried up in horror. An oracle

Oracle

An oracle is a person or agency considered to be a source of wise counsel or prophecy opinion; an infallible authority, usually Spirituality in nature....
predicted that the land would stay dry and barren as long as Lycurgus was alive, so his people had him torn apart by wild horses. With Lycurgus dead, Dionysus lifted the curse.

In Iliad
ILiad

The iLiad is an electronic handheld device, or e-book device, which can be used for document reading and editing. Like the Sony Reader or Amazon Kindle, the iLiad makes use of an electronic paper display....
i, Nestor

Nestor

Nestor may refer to:*Nestor , the son of Neleus, the King of Pylos and Chloris in Greek mythology*Nestor *Nestor , a genus of parrots in ornithology...
numbers Dryas among an earlier generation of heroes of his youth, "the strongest men that Earth has bred, the strongest men against the strongest enemies, a savage mountain-dwelling tribe whom they utterly destroyed." No trace of such an oral tradition, which Homer's listeners would have recognized in Nestor's allusion, survived in literary epic.

2. Dryas, father of Lycurgus

Lycurgus

Lycurgus or Lykurgus may refer to:* People:** Lycurgus of Sparta , ruler** Lycurgus of Athens , activist & government administrator...
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3. Dryas, the son of Ares

Ares

In Greek mythology, Ares is the son of Zeus and Hera. Though often referred to as the Twelve Olympians God of warfare, he is more accurately the god of bloodlust, or slaughter personified: "Ares is apparently an ancient abstract noun meaning throng of battle, war."...
or of Iapetus

Iapetus (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Iapetus, also Iapetos or Japetus , was a Titan , the son of Uranus and Gaia , and father of Atlas , Prometheus, Epimetheus , and Menoetius and through Prometheus, Epimetheus and Atlas an ancestor of the human race....
. He was involved in the hunt for the Calydonian Boar

Calydonian Boar

The Calydonian Boar is one of the monsters of Greek mythology that had to be overcome by heroes of the Olympian age. Sent by Artemis to ravage the region of Calydon in Aetolia because its king failed to honor her in his rites to the gods, it was killed in the Calydonian Hunt, in which many male heroes took part, but also a powerful wom...
and fought with the Lapiths against the Centaurs. His brother, Tereus

Tereus

In Greek mythology, Tereus was a son of Ares and husband of Procne. Procne and Tereus had a son, Itys.Tereus desired his wife's sister, Philomela ....
, falsely believing that he was plotting to kill his son, murdered him.

4. Dryas the seer, father of Municus.

5. Dryas, one of the suitors of Pallane. He was killed by Clitus

Clitus

Cleitus, is the English form of the personal name Kleitos . It has been adopted as an English personal name in modern times mainly in the U.S., and usually with a modern spelling Claitus....
, who then went on to marry Pallane.

6. Dryas, father of Amphilochus

Amphilochus

Amphilochus or Amph?lokhos may refer to:* In Greek mythology:** Amphilochus ** Amphilochus ** Husband of Alcinoe* Amphilochus, a genus in family Gammaridae...
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7. Dryas, one of the sons of Aegyptus

Aegyptus

In Greek mythology, Aegyptus is a descendant of the heifer maiden, Io , and the river-god Nilus , and was a king in Ancient Egypt. Aegyptos was the son of Belus and Achiroe, a naiad daughter of Nile....
and Polyxo

Polyxo

Polyxo, in Greek mythology, was a naiad of the river Nile, presumably one of the daughters of the river-god Nilus . She was one of the wives of Danaus and bore him twelve daughters: Autonoe , Theano, Electra, Cleopatra , Eurydice , Glaucippe, Anthelea, Cleodora, Euippe, Erato , Stygne, and Bryce....
. He married (and was murdered by) Hecabe

Hecabe

Hecabe can refer to:* Hecabe, Latin Hecuba, a Troy queen, wife of Priam and mother of Hector.* An orchid related to the genus Phaius....
or Eurydice

Eurydice (disambiguation)

In Greek Mythology, Eurydice may refer to:* Eurydice, wife of the musician Orpheus* Eurydice of Thebes, wife of Creon and mother of Haemon and Megara...
, daughter of Danaus

Danaus

Danaus, or Danaos , was a Greek mythology, twin brother of Aegyptus and son of Achiroe and Belus , a mythical king of Ancient Egypt. The myth of Danaus is a foundation legend of Argos, one of the foremost Mycenaean Greece cities of the Peloponnesus....
and the naiad

Naiad

In Greek mythology, the Naiads or Naiades were a type of nymph who presided over fountains, wells, springs, streams, and brooks.They are distinct from river gods, who embodied rivers, and the very ancient spirits that inhabited the still waters of marshes, ponds and lagoon-lakes, such as pre-Mycenaean Lerna in the Argolid....
Caliadne

Caliadne

Caliadne , in Greek mythology, is a naiad of the river Nile, presumably one of the daughters of the river-god Nilus . She is one of the wives of Aegyptus, bearing him twelve sons: Eurylochus, Phantes, Peristhenes, Hermus, Dryas, Potamon, Cisseus, Lixus, Imbrus, Bromios, Polyctor, and Chthonios....
, daughter of Nilus

Nilus (mythology)

Nilus, in Greek mythology, was the son of Oceanus and Tethys . He represented the god of the Nile river itself and was father to several children....
and Polyxo's sister.

8. Dryas, a chieftain from Tanagra

Tanagra

Tanagra is a community north of Athens in Boeotia, not far from Thebes , that was noted in antiquity for its mass-produced mold-cast and fired terracotta figurines: see Tanagra figurine....
he brought 1000 archers with him to defend Thebes

Thebes, Greece

Thebes is a city in Greece, situated to the north of the Cithaeron range, which divides Boeotia from Attica, Greece, and on the southern edge of the Boeotian plain....
against the Seven Against Thebes

Seven Against Thebes

The Seven against Thebes is a mythic narrative whose classic statement is found in the play by Aeschylus concerning the battle between the Seven led by Polynices, traditional Theban enemies, and the army of Thebes, Greece headed by Eteocles and his supporters....
. He died in battle, felled by an unknown hand.

9. Dryas, a Greek warrior killed, during the Trojan War

Trojan War

In Greek mythology, the Trojan War was waged against the city of Troy by the Achaeans after Paris of Troy stole Helen from her husband Menelaus, the king of Sparta....
, by Deiphobus

Deiphobus

In Greek mythology, Deiphobus was a son of Priam and Hecuba. He was a prince of Troy, and the greatest of Priam's sons after Hector and Paris ....
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