A figure from Greek mythology, a naiad or water nymph, often associated with transformation tales.
From Greek 'Dryope,' a name used in several mythological narratives, likely derived from 'drys' (oak) referring to tree-dwelling nymphs or dryads.
Dryope's story in Ovid shows one of mythology's strangest transformations—she's turned into a tree, making her a human-dryad hybrid in a way no other myth really captures, and it represents the boundary between human and nature being permeable and terrifying.
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