Edonia was an area of ancient southern Thrace located to the east of Chalkidiki, between the Nestus and Strymon rivers. It was home to the Edoni people. The cities of Drabescus, Myrcinus, Amphipolis, and Eion were located in Edonia.[1] Edonians ruled at one time by Lycurgus who was destroyed by Bacchus for opposing his worship. The Edonides, the women of the Edoni, and worshippers of Bacchus, murdered Orpheus, and were turned into oak trees.[2]
"the pliant roots held her, and checked her, struggling. When she looked for where her toenails, toes and feet were, she saw the wood spreading over the curve of her leg, and, trying to strike her thighs with grieving hands, she beat on oak: her breasts turned to oak: her shoulders were oak. You would have thought the jointed arms were real branches, and your thought would not have been wrong." Bk XI:67-84 The transformation of the Maenads