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.

Mythology

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.[lower-alpha 1] 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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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Although Francis Celoria translates the word as 'pines', the ancient text uses 'ἐλάτας', firs.[1]

References

  1. ↑ M. R. Wright. "A Dictionary of Classical Mythology: Summary of Transformations". mythandreligion.upatras.gr. University of Patras. Retrieved January 3, 2023.
  2. ↑ Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses 32
  3. ↑ Celoria 1992, p. 50.
  4. ↑ Forbes Irving 1990, p. 130.

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