Dryops (mythology)

Greek mythological person

In Greek mythology, Dryops (/ˈdraɪ.ɒps/, Ancient Greek: Δρύοψ, "man of oak")[1]

* Dryops, a king of Oeta.
* Dryops, a Trojan prince as one of the children of King Priam of Troy.[2] In Homer's Iliad, he was killed by Achilles during the Trojan War.[3] In another account, Dryops and his brothers, Bias and Chorithan, were instead slain by Idomeneus.[4]
* Dryops, a companion of Aeneas killed by Clausus, an ally of Turnus, the man who opposed Aeneas in Italy.[5]

## Notes

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1. ^ "Dryops". Brill's New Pauly. p. 729.
2. ^ Apollodorus, 3.12.5; Hyginus, Fabulae 90; Dictys Cretensis, 4.7
3. ^ Homer, Iliad 20.455–6.
4. ^ Dictys Cretensis, 4.7
5. ^ Virgil, Aeneid 10.346

## References

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* Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
* Bloch, René (2004). "Dryops". In Cancik, Hubert; Schneider, Helmuth (eds.). Brill's New Pauly: encyclopaedia of the ancient world. Vol. 4\. Brill. p. 729\. ISBN 90-04-12267-2.
* Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
* Homer, The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
* Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
* Publius Vergilius Maro, Aeneid. Theodore C. Williams. trans. Boston. Houghton Mifflin Co. 1910. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
* Publius Vergilius Maro, Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics. J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1900. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.

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