Dryas

Family: heroes · Role: son of Ares · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 1.8

Life events

• Lycurgus, driven mad by Dionysus, killed his son Dryas with an axe.(Apollodorus, Library 3.5 · 📍 Mount Pangaeum)
  • With: Dionysus Lycurgus
  • “And in his madness he struck his son Dryas dead with an axe, imagining that he was lopping a branch of a vine”

Apollodorus, Library 1.8

• parent: Ares “Dryas, son of Ares”

Apollodorus, Library 3.5

• child: Lycurgus (Lycurgus is the son of Dryas.) “But Lycurgus, son of Dryas, was king of the Edonians, who dwell beside the river Strymon, and he was the first who insulted and expelled him.”

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Extracted from the original text of Greek Mythology. Made with Rho MD.