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PHRYGIA, Otrus. Geta. As Caesar, AD 198-209. Æ (25mm, 7.80 g, 6h). Alexandros, asiarch. bareheaded and cuirassed bust right, seen from the front / Otreus standing left, head right, with right foot on prow, extending right hand and holding spear in left. von Aulock, Phrygiens 842-5; SNG von Aulock 3906. Red-brown surfaces, a few encrustations and cleaning scratches. Good Fine.
Otreus, an aide to Mygdon, king of Phrygia, and King Priam of Troy, lead a force of Phrygians against the Amazons a generation prior to the battle of Troy. Priam mentions this to Helen of Troy in Book 3 of the Iliad:
Ere now have I journeyed to the land of Phrygia, rich in vines, and there I saw in multitudes the Phrygian warriors, masters of glancing steeds, even the people of Otreus and godlike Mygdon, that were then encamped along the banks of Sangarius. For I, too, being their ally, was numbered among them on the day when the Amazons came, the peers of men. -Homer. Iliad, Book 3, line 186.
Otreus, an aide to Mygdon, king of Phrygia, and King Priam of Troy, lead a force of Phrygians against the Amazons a generation prior to the battle of Troy. Priam mentions this to Helen of Troy in Book 3 of the Iliad:
Ere now have I journeyed to the land of Phrygia, rich in vines, and there I saw in multitudes the Phrygian warriors, masters of glancing steeds, even the people of Otreus and godlike Mygdon, that were then encamped along the banks of Sangarius. For I, too, being their ally, was numbered among them on the day when the Amazons came, the peers of men. -Homer. Iliad, Book 3, line 186.