Dryads in popular culture

Dryads have appeared several times in cultural works.
*Seen in John Keats's poem Ode to a Nightingale in line 7 where the bird is compared to a Dryad.
*A unit seen in Age of Mythologies
*Seen in Ben Jonson's poem To Penshurst in line 10 - "They mount, to which thy Dryads do resort."
*Referenced in Charles Williams's novel, .
*Dryads are amongst the creatures who appear in C.S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia.
* Ce'Nedra, a central character in David Eddings' Belgariad and Malloreon, is of dryad heritage.
*Dryads (including male dryads) briefly appear in the Discworld novel The Colour of Magic.
* Sylvia Plath uses Dryads symbolically in her poetry, for example: "On the Difficulty of Conjuring up a Dryad"
* Thomas Burnett Swann's works feature a number of dryad characters, most notably Zoe of the Minotaur Trilogy, and Mellonia of Green Phoenix and The Lady of the Bees.
*Dryads appear in The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, though they are simply called "wood nymphs" instead of dryads.
*A Dryad Scene appears in Rudolf Nureyev's version of
*Dryads appear in various Xanth books.
*The dryad is a Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos's unit,
* The dryad is a tier 1 creature of the Sylvan faction in Heroes of Might and Magic 5: Tribes of the East.
* Several Dryads appear in some Castlevania games as minor enemies. The same also goes for RosenkreuzStilette, where they are found in Iris Stage 2, also as minor enemies. The Dryads in RosenkreuzStilette attack very similarly to Wood Man from Mega Man 2.

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