Dryops was the son of the river god Spercheus and the Danaid Polydora,[2] or of Apollo by Dia, daughter of King Lycaon of Arcadia.
[3][4] As a newborn infant, he was concealed by Dia in a hollow oak-tree.
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.
[2] The people, original inhabitants of the country from the valley of the Spercheius and Thermopylae, as far as Mount Parnassus.