Lycurgus of Thrace fathered Dryas, whom he later killed in a fit of divine madness inflicted by Dionysus. Apollodorus records this as the gods' punishment for Lycurgus's impiety.
Driven mad by Dionysus as punishment for his impiety, Lycurgus mistook his son Dryas for a grapevine and killed him with an axe. Apollodorus' Bibliotheca (3.5.1) records this horrific act of divine retribution.
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