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{{Short description|Aboriginal tribe of ancient Greece}}
'''Dryopes''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|d|r|aɪ|ə|p|iː|z}}; {{langx|grc|Δρύοπες}}) or '''Dryopians''' ({{IPAc-en|d|r|aɪ|ˈ|ɒ|p|i|ən|z}}) were one of the aboriginal tribes of [[ancient Greece]]. According to [[Herodotus]], their earliest abode is said to have been on [[Mount Oeta]] in [[Central Greece (geographic region)|Central Greece]] and its adjacent valleys, in the district called after them, '''Dryopis''' (Δρυοπίς). The Dorians settled in that part of their country which lay between Oeta and [[Mount Parnassus]], and which was afterwards called [[Doris (Greece)|Doris]]; but Dryopis originally extended as far north as the river [[Spercheios]].<ref>{{Cite Herodotus|1.56, 8.31.}}</ref>  The name of Dryopis was still applied to the latter district in the time of [[Strabo]], who calls it a tetrapolis, like [[Doric Tetrapolis|Doris]].<ref>{{Cite Strabo|ix. p.434.}}</ref>
{{infobox language
|name=Dryopian language
|region=[[Mount Oeta]], [[Spercheios]], [[Hermione (Argolis)]], [[Ambracia]], [[Ambracia]]
|era=c. 2400-1200 BCE (North), 1200-700 BCE
|familycolor = unclassified
|family=[[unclassified language|Unattested]] Possibly [[Pelasgian language]]?
}}

[[Heracles]], in conjunction with the [[Malians (Greek tribe)|Malians]], is said to have driven the Dryopes out of their country, and to have given it to the Dorians; whereupon the expelled Dryopes settled at [[Hermione (Argolis)|Hermione]] and [[Asine]] in the [[ancient Argolis|Argolic peninsula]], at [[Styrus]] and [[Carystus]] in [[ancient Euboea|Euboea]], and in the islands of [[Cythnus]] and [[Cyprus]].<ref>{{Cite Herodotus|8.43, 8.36, 8.73.}}</ref><ref>Apollodorus, Library (ed. Sir James George Frazer), Book 2, chapter 7.</ref> These are the six chief places in which the Dryopes are found in historical times.<ref>{{Cite Diodorus|4.57}}</ref><ref>{{Cite Pausanias|4|34|9}}, ''et seq.''</ref><ref>{{Cite Pausanias|5|1|2}}</ref> Later, [[Thucydides]] identifies [[Carystus]] as Dryopian, but nearby Styria as [[Ionians|Ionian]].<ref>{{Cite Thucydides|7.57}}</ref> [[Dicaearchus]] gives the name of Dryopis to the country around [[Ambracia]], from which we might conclude that the Dryopes extended at one time from the [[Ambraciot Gulf]] to Mount Oeta and the Spercheios.<ref>Dicaearchus, 5.30, p. 459, ed. Fuhr.</ref><ref>{{Cite DGRG|title=Dryopes}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Dryope]]
* [[Dryops (Oeta)|Dryops]]
* [[Dryopida]]

==References==
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[[Category:Ancient tribes in Euboea]]
[[Category:Ancient tribes in central Greece]]
[[Category:Ancient tribes in Thessaly]]
[[Category:Mythology of Heracles]]
[[Category:Mount Oeta]]


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