(), a daughter of king Dryops, or, according to
others, of Eurytus. While she tended the flocks of her father on Mount Oeta, she became the
playmate of the Hamadryades, who taught her to sing hymns to the gods and to dance. On one
occasion she was seen by Apollo, who, in order to gain possession of her, metamorphosed
himself into a tortoise. The nymphs played with the animal, and Dryope took it into her lap.
The god then changed himself into a serpent, which frightened the nymphs away, so that he
remained alone with Dryope. Soon after she married Andraemon, the son of Oxylus, but she
became, by Apollo, the mother of Amphissus, who, after he had grown up, built the town of
Oeta, and a temple to Apollo. Once, when Dryope was in the temple, the Hamadryades carried her
off and concealed her in a forest, and in her stead there was seen in the temple a well and a
poplar. Dryope now became a nymph, and Amphissus built a temple to the nymphs, which no woman
was allowed to approach. (s. v.
Aen. 10.551)
mentions another personage of this name.