(), a son of the river-god Spercheius, by the Danaid
Polydora (Ant. 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 (δρῦς; Schol. ad Apollon. Rhod. 1.1283; 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. 4.34.6.) 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. (Ant. Lib. 4; Hom. Hymn. 6.34.)
There are two other mythical personages of this name. (Hom. Il.
20.454; Dict. Cret. 4.7; Verg. A. 10.345.)