Listed 18 sub titles with search on: Mythology for wider area of: "FTHIOTIDA Province GREECE" .
DRYOPIS (Ancient country) FTHIOTIDA
Dryops (Druops), a son of the river-god Spercheius, by the Danaid Polydora (Anton. Lib.
32), or, according to others, a son of Lycaon (probably a mistake for Apollo)
by Dia, the daughter of Lycaon, who concealed her new-born infant in a hollow
oak tree (drus; Schol. ad Apollon. Rhod. i. 1283; Tzetz. ad Lycoph. 480). The
Asinaeans in Messenia worshipped him as their ancestral hero, and as a son of
Apollo, and celebrated a festival in honour of him every other year. His heroum
there was adorned with a very archaic statue of the hero (Paus. iv. 34.6), He
had been king of the Dryopes, who derived their name from him, and were believed
to have occupied the country from the valley of the Spercheius and Thermopylae,
as far as Mount Parnassus. (Anton. Lib. 4; Hom. Hymn. vi. 34)
There are two other mythical personages of this name. (Hom. Il. xx.
454; Dict. Cret. iv. 7; Virg. Aen. x. 345)
ANTHILI (Ancient city) LAMIA
Amphictyonis (Amphiktuonis), a surname of Demeter, derived from Anthela, where she was worshipped under this name, because it was the place of meeting for the amphictyons of Thermopylae, and because sacrifices were offered to her at the opening of every meeting. (Herod. vii. 200 ; Strab. ix.)
ALOPI (Ancient city) FTHIOTIDA
Son of Hermes and Antianira; took part in the Calydonian hunt and in the expedition of the Argonauts.
OITI (Mountain) FTHIOTIDA
Amphissus (Amphissos), a son of Apollo and Dryope, is said to have been of extraordinary strength, and to have built the town of Oeta on the mountain of the same name. Here he also founded two temples, one of Apollo and the other of the Nymphs. At the latter, games were celebrated down to a late period. (Anton. Lib. 32.)
OTHRYS (Mountain chain) STEREA HELLAS
TRACHIS (Ancient city) FTHIOTIDA
Hippasus. A son of Ceyx, king of Trachis, and the companion of Heracles in the war against Oechalia, was slain by Eurytus. (Apollod. ii. 7.7.)
DRYOPIS (Ancient country) FTHIOTIDA
Dryope. The daughter of King Dryops and beloved by Apollo, who, in order
to get possession of her, changed himself into a tortoise. Dryope took the creature
into her lap, whereupon it became a serpent. This sudden transformation frightened
away the companions of Dryope, thus leaving her alone with the god, who then accomplished
his purpose. Soon after she married Andraemon, but became by Apollo the mother
of Amphissus, who founded the town of Oeta and built there a shrine to his father.
Dryope was at last carried off by the wood-nymphs and became one of them.
This text is from: Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. Cited Oct 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Dryope. The daughter of Eurytus or Dryops, and half sister of Iole, Dryope
watched her father's animals on the mountain side of Oeta.
There she played with the Hamadryades, nymphs of the forest, and they taught her
how to sing and dance.
One day Apollo saw her and took a fancy to the young woman. He turned
himself into a tortoise and crept up in Dryope's lap. Then he transformed himself
into a serpent, which scared the nymphs off, so he could be alone with Dryope.
Not long after this Dryope married Andraemon, and she had a baby boy,
Amphissus, who was born with an almost unnatural strength. As a young man he built
a whole town, Oeta, and a temple to Apollo. When Dryope was praying in this temple
one day the Hamadryades came and took her away.
Where Dryope had stood the nymphs put a fountain and a poplar tree.
Amphissus built a temple to the Hamadryades where women were not allowed, and
games were held in their honour.
This text is cited Sept 2003 from the In2Greece URL below.
Daughter of Phylas, mother of Antiochus by Herakles.
ALOPI (Ancient city) FTHIOTIDA
Alope, a daughter of Cercyon, who was beloved by Poseidon on account of her great
beauty, and became by him the mother of a son, whom she exposed immediately after
his birth. But a mare came and suckled the child until it was found by shepherds,
who fell into a dispute as to who was to have the beautiful kingly attire of the
boy. The case was brought before Cercyon, who, on recognising by the dress whose
child the boy was, ordered Alope to be imprisoned in order to be put to death,
and her child to be exposed again. The latter was fed and found in the same manner
as before, and the shepherds called him Hippothous. The body of Alope was changed
by Poseidon into a well, which bore the same name (Hygin. Fab. 187; Paus. i. 5.2;
Aristoph. Av. 533). The town of Alope, in Thessaly, was believed to have derived
its name from her (Pherecyd. ap. Steph. Byz. s. v. Alope, where, however, Philonides
speaks of an Alope as a daughter of Actor). There was a monument of Alope on the
road from Eleusis to Megara, on the spot where she was believed to have been killed
by her father (Paus. i. 39.3).
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Oct 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
DRYOPIS (Ancient country) FTHIOTIDA
A king of the Dryopes, who was attacked and slain by Heracles, because he had violated the sanctuary of Delphi. By his daughter Midea, Heracles became the father of Antiochus.
Laogoras, a king of the Dryopes, was allied with the Lapithae against Aegimius, but was slain by Heracles. (Apollod. ii. 7.
TRACHIS (Ancient city) FTHIOTIDA
Ceyx (Keux), lord of Trachis, was connected by friendship with Heracles. He was the father of Hippasus, who fell in battle fighting as the ally of Heracles (Apollod. ii. 7.6, &c.) According to others, Ceyx was a nephew of Heracles, who built for him the town of Trachis. Muller supposes that the marriage of Ceyx and his connexion with Heracles were subjects of ancient poems.
Alcyone. A daughter of Aeolus and Enarete or Aegiale. She was married to Ceyx, and lived so happy with him, that they were presumptuous enough to call each other Zeus and Hera, for which Zeus metamorphosed them into birds, alkuon and keux (Apollod. i. 7.3, &c.; Hygin. Fab. 65). Hyginus relates that Ceyx perished in a shipwreck, that Alcyone for grief threw herself into the sea, and that the gods, out of compassion, changed the two into birds. It was fabled, that during the seven days before, and as many after, the shortest day of the year, while the bird alkuon was breeding, there always prevailed calms at sea. An embellished form of the same story is given by Ovid (Met. xi. 410, &c.; comp. Virg. Georg. i. 399).
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Oct 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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