Otreus

[4] Otreus is mentioned in the Iliad only once by name, as having fought in a battle on the banks of the Sangarius against the Amazons, alongside Mygdon of Phrygia.

[8] Valerius Flaccus has Dymas say that Otreus was killed by Amycus, a mythological type of the cruel tyrant who imposes a usually fatal task on travelers before he will allow them to pass through his territory, thus warning the Argonauts to anticipate this hazard, which they duly overcome.

"[11] Deception was required to overcome any reluctance a mortal man might feel about the cost of sleeping with a goddess: permanent impotence afterward.

[12] Ezra Pound names Otreus in Canto XXIII in a thematic use of the Homeric and Epic Cycle to show recurring patterns in history.

"[14] Pound's layered patterning may reference the fall of Troy and surrounding events in relation to the destruction of Smyrna during the Greco-Turkish War.