In the Greek mythological tradition, Otreus 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.
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in a war against the Amazons. Homer calls the Phrygians "the people of Otreus and godlike Mygdon". According to Euripides, Quintus Smyrnaeus and others...
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Gordias, while instead mentioning two other Phrygian kings, Mygdon and Otreus. Midaeum was presumably named after him, and this is probably also the Midas...
generation before the Trojan War), the Phrygians were said to be led by Otreus and Mygdon. Both appear to be little more than eponyms: there was a place...
was identified as Strymo, daughter of Scamander or Placia, daughter of Otreus or Zeuxippe. Leucippe, a daughter of Thestor and possibly Polymele, and...
died) before Troy. The scholiasts credited Dymas with another son, named Otreus, who fought the Amazons a generation before the Trojan War.[citation needed]...
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