Drymo

In Greek mythology, Drymo or Drimo may refer to two different characters:

Drymo[1] or Drimo,[2] was one of the 50 Nereids, sea-nymph daughters of the 'Old Man of the Sea' Nereus and the Oceanid Doris. She was one the nymphs in the train of Cyrene.[3][4]
Drimo, one of the Alcyonides, daughters of the giant Alcyoneus. She was the sister of Alcippe, Anthe, Asteria, Methone, Pallene and Phthonia (Phosthonia or Chthonia).[5] When their father Alcyoneus was slain by Heracles, these girls threw themselves into the sea from Kanastraion, which is the peak of Pellene. They were then transformed into halcyons (kingfishers) by the goddess Amphitrite.[6]

Notes

Hyginus, Fabulae Preface (Latin ed. Munckerus; Schmidt)
Hyginus, Fabulae Preface (Latin ed. Micyllus; Scheffero; Staveren; Bunte)
Virgil, Georgics 4.336
This was definitely a misinterpretation of Hyginus in Virgil's Georgics 4.336 which suggests that Drymo, Xantho, Ligea and Phyllodoce were naiads, more likely Oceanides, rather than Nereides: ". . .Even from her chamber in the river-deeps, His mother heard: around her spun the nymphs, Milesian wool stained through with hyaline dye, Drymo, Xantho, Ligea, Phyllodoce, Their glossy locks o'er snowy shoulders shed, . . ."
Eustathius on Homer, Iliad 776

Suida, Suda Encyclopedia s.v. Alkyonides

References

Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
Publius Vergilius Maro, Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics of Vergil. J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1900. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
Suida, Suda Encyclopedia translated by Ross Scaife, David Whitehead, William Hutton, Catharine Roth, Jennifer Benedict, Gregory Hays, Malcolm Heath Sean M. Redmond, Nicholas Fincher, Patrick Rourke, Elizabeth Vandiver, Raphael Finkel, Frederick Williams, Carl Widstrand, Robert Dyer, Joseph L. Rife, Oliver Phillips and many others. Online version at the Topos Text Project.

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