Dryops (mythology)

InGreek mythology, Dryops (/ˈdraɪ.ɒps/, Ancient Greek: Δρύοψ, "oak-face", "wood-face" or "wood-eater")

Dryops, a king of Oeta.

Dryops, a Trojan prince as one of the children of King Priam of Troy.^[1]InHomer's Iliad, he was killed by Achilles during the Trojan War.^[2] In another account, Dryops and his brothers, Bias and Chorithan, were instead slain by Idomeneus.^[3]

Dryops, a companion of Aeneas killed by Clausus, an ally of Turnus, the man who opposed Aeneas in Italy.^[4]

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References

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.
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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