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In Greek mythology, Dryope[1] was the daughter of Dryops ("oak-man") or of Eurytus (and hence half-sister to Iole). 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 In Greek mythology, Eurytus is the name of numerous characters In Greek mythology, Iole ( Ancient Greek:) was the daughter of Eurytus, king of Oechalia She was sometimes thought of as one of the Pleiades. This article is about Greek mythology The Pleiades star cluster also appears in many other mythologies &mdash see Pleiades (star cluster. There are two stories of her metamorphosis into a black poplar. Shapeshifting is a common theme in Mythology and Folklore, as well as in Science fiction and Fantasy. Populus is a genus of between 25–35 species of Flowering plants in the family Salicaceae, native to most of the Northern Hemisphere. According to the first, Apollo seduced her by a trick. Dryope had been accustomed to play with the hamadryads of the woods on Mount Oeta. Hamadryads ( Ἁμαδρυάδες) are Greek mythological beings that live in Trees They are a specific species of Dryad, which are a particular Mount Oeta ( Όρος Οίτη) is a mountain to the south of Central Greece, in Greece, forming a boundary between the valleys of the Spercheius Apollo chased her, and in order to win her favours turned himself into a tortoise, of which the girls made a pet. Tortoises or land Turtles are land-dwelling Reptiles of the family of Testudinidae', order Testudines. When Dryope had the tortoise on her lap, he turned into a snake. She tried to flee, but he coiled around her legs and held her arms tightly against her sides as he raped her. The nymphs then abandoned her, and she eventually gave birth to her son Amphissus. In Greek mythology, Amphissus was the product of Apollo 's rape of Dryope. She married Andraemon. In Greek mythology, Andraemon, or Andraimôn, was the husband of Dryope and father of Thoas Amphissus eventually built a temple to his father Apollo in the city of Oeta, which he founded. Here the nymphs came to converse with Dryope, who had become a priestess of the temple, but one day Apollo again returned in the form of a serpent and coiled around her while she stood by a spring. This time Dryope was turned into a poplar tree. [2]

In Ovid's version of the story,[3] Dryope was wandering by a lake, suckling her baby Amphissus, when she saw the bright red flowers of the lotus tree, formerly the nymph Lotis who, when fleeing from Priapus, had been changed into a tree. Publius Ovidius Naso ( March 20, 43 BC – 17 AD was a Roman poet known to the English -speaking world as Ovid who wrote on many topics including Red is any of a number of similar Colors evoked by light consisting predominantly of the longest wavelengths of Light discernible by the human eye in the wavelength A flower, also known as a bloom or Blossom, is the reproductive structure found in Flowering plants (plants of the division Magnoliophyta, also Nelumbo is a Genus of aquatic plants with large showy Water lily -like flowers commonly known as Lotus or sacred lotus Lotis was a Nymph of Greek mythology, the daughter of Poseidon or Nereus. In Greek mythology, Priapus (Πρίαπος was a minor rustic fertility god protector of Livestock, fruit plants gardens and male Genitalia. Dryope wanted to give the blossoms to her baby to play with, but when she picked one the tree started to tremble and bleed. She tried to run away, but the blood of the tree had touched her skin and she found her feet rooted to the spot. She slowly began to turn into a black poplar, the bark spreading up her legs from the earth, but just before the woody stiffness finally reached her throat and as her arms began sprouting twigs her husband Andraemon heard her cries and came to her. She had just enough time to warn her husband to take care of their child and make sure that he did not pick flowers.

In some accounts, Hermes fathered Pan upon Dryope, daughter of Dryops, for whom he was tending kine, but in point of fact Pan was far older than Hermes (Graves 1960). Hermes ( Greek,, ˈhɝmiːz in Greek mythology, is the Olympian god of boundaries and of the travelers who cross them of Shepherds and Pan ( Greek, Genitive) is the Greek god of shepherds and flocks of mountain wilds hunting and rustic music paein means to pasture

In Virgil's Aeneid, Aeneas kills mercilessly a man called Tarquitus who is said to be the son of Faunus the god of the woods and Dryope. For the group of nine Ancient Egyptian deities see Ennead. The Aeneid (əˈniːɪd in In Roman mythology, Pan 's counterpart Faunus was one of the oldest Roman deities the Di indigetes, who was a good spirit of the forest plains and fields

In Apollonius of Rhodes' Argonautica it is recalled that Heracles had mercilessly slain the excellent Theiodamas in the "land of the Dryopes", upon whom Heracles made war "because they gave no heed to justice in their lives". The Argonautica ( Greek:) is a Greek Epic poem written by Apollonius Rhodius in the 3rd century BCE. In Greek mythology, Heracles or Herakles ("glory of Hera " or The Dryopians were a tribe of ancient Greece. According to Herodotus, they had once lived in a place called Dryopia later known as Doris. [4]

Notes

  1. ^ Drys, "oak"; dryope "woodpecker" (Graves)
  2. ^ Antoninus Liberalis, 32; Stephanus Byzantinus, "Dryope";
  3. ^ Ovid, Metamorphoses, IX. Antoninus Liberalis was an Ancient Greek Grammarian who probably flourished between AD 100 and 300. Stephanus of Byzantium, also known as Stephanus Byzantinus ( Greek:; fl The Metamorphoses by the Roman poet Ovid is a narrative poem 325ff.
  4. ^ Richard Hunter, translator, Jason and the Golden Fleece (Oxford:Clarendon Press), 1993, p 31f.

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The Dryopians were a tribe of ancient Greece. According to Herodotus, they had once lived in a place called Dryopia later known as Doris.
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