Our website is made possible by displaying online advertisements to our visitors.
Please consider supporting us by disabling your ad blocker.
Otreus
In the Greek mythological tradition, Otreus (Ancient Greek: Ὀτρεύς) was the legendary founder of Otrea in southern Bithynia (Hellespont Phrygia).[1] His name has also been linked to Otrous, a Phyrgian town on the Eucarpitic plain.[2] He is possibly depicted on coins found in the area of Ilium.[3]
The father of Otreus is supposed by the scholiast on Homer to have been a son of Dymas, presumably the Dymas who was king of Phyrgia.[4]
- ^ Peter Carrington, "The Heroic Age of Phrygia in Ancient Literature and Art," Anatolian Studies 27 (1977), p. 123, citing Strabo 12.4.7, C566.
- ^ Carrington, "The Heroic Age," p. 123.
- ^ Carrington, "The Heroic Age," pp. 123–124.
- ^ W. R. Barnes, "The Trojan War in Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica," Hermes 109:3 (1981), p. 123, citing the scholiast on Homer's Iliad, 3.188, 189.
Previous Page Next Page
