the rich-tressed daughter of Dryops (Homeric Hymn XIX · To Pan)
Role: Hermes’s wife and Pan’s mother · First appears: Homeric Hymn XIX · To Pan
In the Homeric Hymn XIX, at Arcadia, Hermes married the rich-tressed daughter of Dryops, “and there he brought about the merry marriage.” In their house she bore Hermes a son, Pan, who “from his birth was marvellous to look upon, with goat’s feet and two horns—a noisy, merry-laughing child.”
Relationship record
Life events
- Hermes married the rich-tressed daughter of Dryops.(Homeric Hymn XIX · To Pan · 📍 Arcadia)
- With: Hermes
- “there fell on him and waxed strong melting desire to wed the rich-tressed daughter of Dryops, and there he brought about the merry marriage.”
- Hermes and the daughter of Dryops had a son, Pan.(Homeric Hymn XIX · To Pan)
Homeric Hymn XIX · To Pan
- married with Hermes “because there fell on him and waxed strong melting desire to wed the rich-tressed daughter of Dryops, and there he brought about the merry marriage.”
- child: Pan “And in the house she bare Hermes a dear son who from his birth was marvellous to look upon, with goat’s feet and two horns—a noisy, merry-laughing child.”
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Extracted from the original text of Hesiod and Homerica. Made with Rho MD.