In Ovid's version of the story, 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, Arcadian nymph

The parentage of Pan is unclear ; in some myths he is the son of Zeus, though generally he is the son of Hermes or Dionysus, with whom his mother is said to be a nymph, sometimes Dryope or, in Nonnus, Dionysiaca ( 14. 92 ), Penelope of Mantineia in Arcadia.

In some accounts, Hermes fathered Pan upon Dryope, daughter of Dryops, for whom he was tending kine, but according to 20th century author Robert Graves ( 1960 ), Pan was far older than Hermes.

See below for another Dryope, consort of Faunus, who was seen as the Roman equivalent of Pan.

Hylas was kidnapped by nymphs of the spring of Pegae, ( Dryope ), that fell in love with him in Mysia and vanished without a trace ( Apollonios Rhodios ).

Here the nymphs came to converse with Dryope, who had become 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.

Dryope wanted to give the blossoms to her baby to play with, but when she picked one the tree started to tremble and bleed.

In another account, she was changed into a lotus tree to escape Priapus ; later, Dryope picked a flower off the tree Lotis had become, and was transformed into a black poplar.

Dryope had been accustomed to play with the hamadryads of the woods on Mount Oeta.

In Greek mythology, Dryope ( Δρυόπη ) is the name attributed to several distinct figures.

When Dryope had the tortoise on her lap, he turned into a snake.

This time Dryope was turned into a poplar tree.

* Dryope, mother of Tarquitus by Faunus, the god of the woods.

* Dryope, a Theban woman of Phoenician origin, mother of Chromis.

* Dryope, a Lemnian.

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A late legend also attributes Eurytus as the father of Dryope, by his first wife.

In Greek mythology, Amphissus was the product of Apollo's rape of Dryope.

* Andraemon, son of Oxylus and husband of Dryope.

) Liberalis also says that King Dryops of Oeta was son of Spercheus by Polydora, daughter of Danaus ; this Dryops was also father of Dryope.

Both the Romanian word for " fairy " Zânǎ and the Leonese word for " water nymph " xana, seem to come from the name of Diana.

According to the urbane retelling of myth in Ovid's Metamorphoses, for a long time, a nymph named Echo had the job of distracting Hera from Zeus ' affairs by leading her away and flattering her.

The obverse depicted the nymph of the local spring, Larissa, for whom the town was named ; probably the choice was inspired by the famous coins of Kimon depicting the Syracusan nymph Arethusa.

By a nymph, Pareia, he had four sons, Eurymedon, Nephalion, Chryses and Philolaus, who were killed by Heracles in revenge for the murder of the latter's two companions ; and by Dexithea, one of the Telchines, he had a son Euxanthius.

In classical mythology, Syrinx ( Greek Συριγξ ) was a nymph and a follower of Artemis, known for her chastity.

Chiron's wedding-gift to Peleus when he married the nymph Thetis in classical Greek mythology, was an ashen spear as the nature of ashwood with its straight grain made it an ideal choice of wood for a spear.

The Sicilian Greek poet Theocritus wrote two poems circa 275 BC concerning Polyphemus ' desire for Galatea, a sea nymph.

* See Hesperides for Arethusa, a hesperid nymph

Adrasteia and her sister Ida, the nymph of Mount Ida, who also cared for the infant Zeus, were perhaps the daughters of Melisseus.

The pursuit of a local nymph by an Olympian god, part of the archaic adjustment of religious cult in Greece, was given an arch anecdotal turn in Ovid's Metamorphoses, where the god's infatuation was caused by an arrow from Eros, who wanted to make Apollo pay for making fun of his archery skills and to demonstrate the power of love's arrow.

Tithonus was a Trojan by birth, the son of King Laomedon of Troy by a water nymph named Strymo ( Στρυμώ promises too much, and might beguile Anchises into expecting too much, even an ageless immortality " ( p. 149 ).</ ref > According to the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, when Eos asked Zeus to make Tithonus immortal, she forgot to ask for eternal youth ( 218-38 ).

There, he was cared for by the Sinties, according to Iliad or by Thetis ( Apollodorus, Bibliotheke I: 3. 5 ), and there with a Thracian nymph Cabiro ( a daughter of Proteus ) he fathered a tribe called the Kaberoi.

Antoninus Liberalis again portrays Byblis as overcome with unanswered love for her brother ; after Caunus leaves, she rejects the proposals of numerous suitors and attempts to commit suicide by jumping off a cliff, but is saved by Hamadryads, who cause her to fall asleep and transform her into a fellow nymph.

The Augustan poet Ovid conflates her with another archaic goddess named Carna, whose festival was celebrated on the Kalends of June and for whom he gives the alternative name Cranê or Cranea, a nymph.

Janus too was seized by desire for the nymph.

( Best known from Homer's epic, the Odyssey, Calypso was a nymph who enticed Odysseus into a cave for seven years.

" The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd " ( 1600 ) by Sir Walter Raleigh also comments on the anti-pastoral as the nymph responds realistically to the idealizing shepherd of The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by embracing and explaining the true course of nature and its incompatibility with the love that the Shepherd yearns for with the nymph.

* Liriope ( genus ), a genus of plants in the lily family, named for the nymph

* 414 Liriope, a main belt asteroid, also named for the nymph

In Prometheus the Fire-Bringer, the Titan finally warns Zeus not to lie with the sea nymph Thetis, for she is fated to give birth to a son greater than the father.

Weighted stonefly nymph patterns are a staple for Deschutes anglers and produce year round.