Dryops

First appears: Book 4 · Chapter 34

Life events

Hercules defeated the Dryopes and took them to Delphi as an offering to Apollo.(Book 4 · Chapter 34 · 📍 Delphi)
- With: Hercules Apollo
- “when Phylas was king, the Dryopes were beaten in battle by Hercules, and were taken to Delphi and offered to Apollo.”
Apollo’s oracle caused Hercules to return the Dryopes to the Peloponnese, where they first occupied Asine.(Book 4 · Chapter 34 · 📍 Asine)
- With: Hercules Apollo
- “But in the third generation afterwards, when Phylas was king, the Dryopes were beaten in battle by Hercules, and were taken to Delphi and offered to Apollo. And being brought back to the Peloponnese by the oracle which the god gave Hercules, they first occupied Asine near Hermion”
After expulsion from Asine, the Dryopes settled in Messenia with permission from the Lacedæmonians.(Book 4 · Chapter 34 · 📍 Messenia)
- “having been expelled thence by the Argives, they dwelt in Messenia by permission of the Lacedæmonians”
The Dryopes fled to the Peloponnese and Eurystheus granted them Asine in Argolis.(Book 4 · Chapter 34 · 📍 Asine)
- With: Eurystheus
- “afterwards crossing over in ships to the Peloponnese became suppliants of Eurystheus, and he being a bitter enemy of Hercules gave them Asine in Argolis to dwell in.”

parent: Apollo “They have not only a temple of Apollo, but a temple and ancient statue of Dryops, whose mysteries they celebrate annually, and say that he was the son of Apollo.”

Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.