(Δρυόπη; Dryópē).
[1] Nymph, transformed into a tree
Name of a nymph. Two widely diverging accounts exist of D.'s metamorphosis. According to Nik. in Antonius Liberalis 32, D. was the daughter of Dryops and wife of Andraemon [2]. She took onto her lap Apollo, who had been transformed into a tortoise, and subsequently gave birth to Amphissus. D. was abducted by the nymphs with whom she played as a girl and to whose world she originally belonged. In …