Oechalides

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.^[a] This was supposedly why women were not allowed in the foot-race in honour of Apollo at Oechalia.^[2][3][4]

See also

• Ancient Greece portal
• mythology portal

• Cerambus
• Sisyphus
• Clytie

Footnotes

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