In Greek mythology, Dryas (Ancient Greek Δρύας, from δρῦς, "oak") is the Thracian father of Lycurgus, king of the Edoni. Homer recalls him when Diomedes warns Glaucus that even Lycurgus, son of Dryas, did not live long after striving against the gods — the classic cautionary tale of Dionysus' persecution beside the Strymon.
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I.Father of Lycurgus
This Dryas is father of Lycurgus (also Lykourgos), the Edonian king who attempted to extirpate the cult of Dionysus in Thrace. Homer (Iliad 6.130–140) names Lycurgus as "son of Dryas" when Diomedes recounts how the mad king drove the nurses of raging Dionysus and was blinded by Zeus as punishment — a warning against fighting the immortals.
Apollodorus, Sophocles' Antigone, and Hyginus continue the Edonian persecution story with Lycurgus as antagonist; Dryas himself appears mainly as the patronymic anchor of that line rather than as an independent actor.
II.Homonyms
This atlas entry (dryas-thrace) is the Thracian father of Lycurgus. Distinct from Dryas the son of Lycurgus, whom Apollodorus has the mad king kill when he mistakes the boy for a trunk of ivy; from Dryas the Lapith who fought the Centaurs; from an Aegyptiad bridegroom among the sons of Aegyptus; and from several lesser namesakes (Orion's son at Thebes, a suitor of Pallene, and others).