In Greek mythology, Dryope^[1] was the daughter of Dryops ("oak-man") or of Eurytus (and hence half-sister to Iole). She was sometimes thought of as one of the Pleiades. There are two stories of her metamorphosis into a black poplar. 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. Apollo chased her, and in order to win her favours turned himself into a tortoise, of which the girls made a pet. 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. She married Andraemon. 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 became 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] The Oricoli bust of Zeus, King of the Gods, in the collection of the Vatican Museum. ... In Greek mythology, Dryops was the name of several individuals: The father of Dryope. ... In Greek mythology, King Eurytus, or Eurýtos of Oschalia (Oikhalia), Thessaly, was the father of Dryope and Iole. ... In Greek mythology, Iole (Ίόλη) was the daughter of Eurytus. ... The Pleiades Πληιόνης (pleye-a-deez, also plee-a-deez), companions of Artemis (ar-te-mis), were the seven daughters of the Titan Atlas (at-las) and the sea-nymph Pleione (pleye-oh-nee) born on Mount Cyllene (seye-lee-nee). ... Shapeshifting, transformation , transmogrification or morphing is a change in the form or shape of a person, especially: a change from human form to animal form and vice versa a change in appearance from one person to another Shapeshifting is not considered scientifically or medically possible for humans (and animal shapeshifting... This article is about woody plants of the genus Populus. ... For other uses, see Apollo (disambiguation). ... Categories: Mythology stubs | Nymphs ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Genera Chersina Dipsochelys Furculachelys Geochelone Gopherus Homopus Indotestudo Kinixys Malacochersus Manouria Psammobates Pyxis Testudo A tortoise is a land-dwelling reptile of the order Testudines. ... In Greek mythology, Amphissus was the product of Apollos rape of Dryope. ... In Greek mythology, Andraemon, or Andraimôn, was the husband of Dryope. ...

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. 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. Engraved frontispiece of George Sandyss 1632 London edition of Publius Ovidius Naso (Sulmona, March 20, 43 BC â€“ Tomis, now Constanta AD 17) Roman poet known to the English-speaking world as Ovid, wrote on topics of love, abandoned women, and mythological transformations. ... Red may be any of a number of similar colours at the lowest frequencies of light discernible by the human eye. ... Field of Poppy flowers Cluster of Clivia miniata flowers A flower, (<Old French flo(u)r<Latin florem<flos), also known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Magnoliophyta, also called angiosperms). ... Species Nelumbo lutea (American Lotus) Nelumbo nucifera (Sacred Lotus) Nelumbo is a genus of water flowers commonly known as lotus (Hindi: कमल) and the only genus in the family Nelumbonaceae. ... In biology, Lotis is a genus of ladybird beetle and Lotis is a Species of butterfly. ... Bronze sculpture of Priapus making an offering to his phallus, House of the Vettii, Pompeii Fresco of Priapus, House of the Vettii, Pompeii. ...

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 bearing the infant Dionysus, by Praxiteles Hermes (Greek IPA: ), in Greek mythology, is the Olympian god of boundaries and of the travelers who cross them, of shepherds and cowherds, of orators and wit, of literature and poets, of athletics, of weights and measures and invention and commerce in general... Look up Pan in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

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. The Aeneid (IPA English pronunciation: ; in Latin Aeneis, pronounced — the title is Greek in form: genitive case Aeneidos): is a Latin epic written by Virgil in the 1st century BC (between 29 and 19 BC) that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who travelled to Italy where he... Marble sculpture of Pan copulating with a goat, recovered from Herculaneum Pan (Greek &#928;&#945;&#957;, genitive &#928;&#945;&#957;&#959;&#962;) is the Greek god who watches over shepherds and their flocks. ...

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".^[4] Apollonius of Rhodes (Apollonios Rhodios) (270 BC? – unknown, after 245 BC), Hellenistic Greek epic poet and scholar of the Library of Alexandria, during the reigns of Ptolemy II and Ptolemy III, and a chief librarian of the Library of Alexandria. ... The Argonautica (Greek: ) is a Greek epic poem written by Apollonius Rhodius in the 3rd century BC. The only surviving Hellenistic epic, the Argonautica tells the myth of the voyage of Jason and the Argonauts to retrieve the Golden Fleece from the mythical land of Colchis. ... Hercules, a Roman bronze (Louvre Museum) In roman mythology, Heracles or Herakles (glory of Hera, or Alcides, original name) + , ) was a divine hero, the son of Zeus and Alcmene, stepson of Amphitryon[1] and great-grandson of Perseus. ...

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Antoninus Liberalis, Greek grammarian, probably flourished about AD 150. ... Stephanus Byzantinus (Stephanus of Byzantium), the author of a geographical dictionary entitled &#917;&#952;&#957;&#953;&#954;&#945; (Ethnica), of which, apart from some fragments, we possess only the meagre epitome of one Hermolaus. ... Cover of George Sandyss 1632 edition of The Metamorphoses by the Roman poet Ovid is a poem in fifteen books that describes the creation and history of the world in terms of Greek and Roman mythology. ...

References

• Graves, Robert, (1955) 1960. The Greek Myths. 21.j; 26.5; 56.2; 150.b, 1.
• Kerenyi, Karl. 1951. The Gods of the Greeks 141, 173.