In Greek mythology, two virgin Oechalides (Ancient Greek: Οἰχαλίδες, romanized: Oikhalides, lit. 'Oechalian women') were transformed into trees by the nymphs when they revealed the fate of a disappeared priestess. They dwelled in Oechalia, a town in ancient Thessaly.
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After Dryope married Andraemon and gave birth to Apollo's son Amphissus, she and her husband erected a temple to Apollo, where Dryope served as a priestess. One day the nymphs took Dryope with them and left a poplar tree in her place. Two virgin women of the town told the rest that the nymphs had seized Dryope; the nymphs in anger turned them both into fir trees.[a] This was supposedly why women were not allowed in the foot-race in honour of Apollo at Oechalia.[2][3][4]
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References[edit]
- ^ M. R. Wright. "A Dictionary of Classical Mythology: Summary of Transformations". mythandreligion.upatras.gr. University of Patras. Retrieved January 3, 2023.
- ^ Antoninus Liberalis, 32
- ^ Celoria 1992, p. 50.
- ^ Forbes Irving 1990, p. 130.
Bibliography[edit]
- Antoninus Liberalis, The Metamorphoses of Antoninus Liberalis translated by Francis Celoria (Routledge 1992). Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Celoria, Francis (1992). The Metamorphoses of Antoninus Liberalis: A Translation with a Commentary. Routledge. ISBN 0-415-06896-7.
- Forbes Irving, Paul M. C. (1990). Metamorphosis in Greek Myths. Clarendon Press. ISBN 0-19-814730-9.
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