For other uses of Dryas or Drias see Dryas (disambiguation), Drias (disambiguation), Dryad (disambiguation), and Hamadryad (disambiguation). Drias may refer to Dryas, characters in Greek mythology Drias Kavala, a former village in Greece

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

1. Greek mythology is the body of stories belonging to the ancient Greeks concerning their gods and Heroes the nature of the world and the origins and significance Dryas was the son of King Lycurgus, king of the Edoni in Thrace; "Shepherd of the People", Nestor calls him (Iliad i. Lycurgus (also Lykurgos, Lykourgos) was a king of the Edoni in Thrace, and the father of Dryas, the "oak" ( The Edoni (also Edones, Edonians, Edonides) were a Thracian people who dwelt mostly between the Nestus and the Strymon Thrace (Тракия Trakiya or "Trakija" or Trakia, Θράκη Thráki, Trakya is a historical and geographic area in southeast Europe 263). He was killed when his father went insane ^[1] and mistook him for a mature trunk of ivy, a plant holy to the god Dionysus, whose cult Lycurgus was attempting to extirpate. Hedera (English name ivy, plural ivies) is a genus of 15 species of climbing or ground-creeping Evergreen woody plants in the family In Classical mythology, Dionysus or Dionysos (in Greek, Διόνυσος or Διώνυσος; associated with Roman This article discusses cult in the original and typically ancient sense of "religious practice" (cultus

Resisting the arrival of the god, Lycurgus had pursued all of Dionysus' followers, the Maenads, with an ox-goad and imprisoned them ^[2]; Dionysus was forced to flee to the undersea grotto of Thetis the sea nymph. This article is about the Greek sea nymph Thetis should not be confused with Themis, the embodiment of the laws of nature but see the sea-goddess Tethys. Homer (Iliad vi) says that Zeus struck him blind— Dryas, the oak, is sacred to Zeus. The compiler of Bibliotheke (iii. The Bibliotheca (in English: Library) in three books provides a grand summary of traditional Greek mythology and heroic Legends 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 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. An oracle is a person or agency considered to be a source of wise counsel or prophetic opinion an Infallible authority usually spiritual in nature With Lycurgus dead, Dionysus lifted the curse. ^[3]

In Iliad i, Nestor 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. The Iliad ( Greek: Ἰλιάς (Ancient Ιλιάδα (Modern is together with the Odyssey, one of two ancient " 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.

3. Dryas, the son of Ares or of Iapetus. In Greek mythology, Ares ( Ancient Greek:, Μodern Greek Άρης) is the son of Zeus and Hera. In Greek mythology, Iapetus, also Iapetos or Japetus (Ἰαπετός was a Titan, the son of Uranus and Gaia, and father He was involved in the hunt for the Calydonian Boar and fought with the Lapiths against the Centaurs. The Calydonian Boar is one of the monsters of Greek mythology that had to be overcome by heroes of the Olympian age In Greek mythology, the Lapiths were a legendary people whose home was in Thessaly, in the valley of the Peneus and on the mountain Pelion. In Greek mythology, the centaurs (from Ancient Greek: Κένταυροι - Kéntauroi are a race of creatures composed of part Human His brother, Tereus, falsely believing that he was plotting to kill his son, murdered him. In Greek mythology, Tereus (Τηρεύς was a son of Ares and husband of Procne. ^[4]

4. Dryas the seer, father of Municus.

5. Dryas, one of the suitors of Pallane. He was killed by Clitus, who then went on to marry Pallane. Cleitus, is the English form of the Personal name Kleitos (Greek Κλείτος which may in turn derive from Greek kleos glory)

6. Dryas, father of Amphilochus. In Greek mythology, Amphilochus, or Amphílokhos, is the name of three men

7. Dryas, one of the sons of Aegyptus and Polyxo. In Greek mythology, Αἴγυπτος/Aígyptos, usually Latinized as Aegyptus, in Greek ("supine goat" descendant of the Heifer Polyxo, in Greek mythology, was a Naiad of the river Nile, presumably one of the daughters of the river-god Nilus. He married (and was murdered by) Hecabe or Eurydice, daughter of Danaus and the naiad Caliadne, daughter of Nilus and Polyxo's sister. Danaus, or Danaos ("sleeper" Greek Δαναός) was a Greek mythological character, twin brother of Aegyptus and son of Achiroe In Greek mythology, the Naiads or Naiades (Ναϊάδες from the Greek νάειν "to flow" and νἃμα "running water" Caliadne (also Caliadna) in Greek mythology, is a Naiad of the river Nile, presumably one of the daughters of the river-god Nilus Nilus, in Greek mythology, in Greek Mythology was the son of Oceanus and Tethys. ^[5]

8. Dryas, a chieftain from Tanagra he brought 1000 archers with him to defend Thebes against the Seven Against Thebes. The Tanager Genus Tangara is often misunderstood to be "Tanagra" Thebes ( Classic Greek Θῆβαι, Mod Θήβα) is a city in Greece, situated to the north of the Cithaeron range which divides The Seven against Thebes (Επτά επί Θήβας Epta epi Thēbas) is a mythic narrative whose classic statement is found in the play by Aeschylus (467 BCE He died in battle, felled by an unknown hand. ^[6]

9. Dryas, a Greek warrior killed, during the Trojan War, by Deiphobus. In Greek mythology, the Trojan War was waged against the city of Troy by the Achaeans after Paris of Troy stole Helen from her List of King Priam's children In Greek mythology, Deiphobus was a son of Priam and Hecuba. ^[7]

References

• Robert Graves, (1955) 1960. Publius Papinius Statius (ca 45-96 was a Roman Poet of the Silver Age of Latin literature, born in Naples, Italy. Quintus Smyrnaeus (or Quintus of Smyrna, also known as Kointos of Smyrna) ( Κόιντος Σμυρναίος) was a Greek epic Robert Graves (24 July 1895 &ndash 7 December 1985 was an English Poet, Translator and Novelist. The Greek Myths 27. e.
• Homer, Iliad vi. 530-40.
• Karl Kerenyi, 1976. One of the founders of modern studies in Greek mythology, Károly (Carl Karl Kerényi ( January 19, 1897 &ndash April 14 1973 Dionysos: Archetypal Image of Indestructible Life (Princeton: Bollingen) Translated by Ralph Manheim.

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