Father of Lycurgus, the Edonian king who persecuted Dionysus beside the Strymon. Homer names him when Diomedes warns Glaucus that even the son of Dryas did not live long after striving with the gods.1
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In the Thracian strand of the Dionysus myth, Dryas is known only as the sire of mighty Lycurgus. Apollodorus calls Lycurgus son of Dryas king of the Edonians; Hyginus repeats the patronym when he tells how Liber drove the persecutor to madness and death. Homer, warning a hero not to fight an immortal, holds up Dryas' son as the cautionary example — a mortal who warred on Dionysus and paid with blindness and an early end.2
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