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Ramsay, William Mitchell
The cities and bishoprics of Phrygia: being an essay of the local history of Phrygia from the earliest time to the Turkish conquest (Band 1,2): West and West-Central Phrygia — Oxford, 1897

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688 XVI. THE PENTAPOLIS OF PHRYGIA.

valley in opposition to Brouzos. For this reason it was placed near
the hieron, and probably on a part of the land that belonged to the
god and his priests1. That was probably the case with the other
Pergamenian settlements at Dionysopolis and Eumeneia; and in each
case there is reason to think that the new foundation was made with
the consent of the priests and in pursuance of a policy with which
they were in sympathy2, viz. the construction of a Graeco-Asianic
society and civilization. Thus Otrous is presented to us as the Perga-
menian counterpoise to the Seleucid Brouzos; we have once more
a case of the same class that meets us so frequently in Phrygia,
Tripolis opposing Laodiceia in the Lycos valley, Phylakaion against
Themisonion in the Kazanes valley, Eumeneia balancing Peltai in the
Maeander valley, and Tralla-Aetos opposite to the Mysomakedones
on the great pass of the Pergamenian and Seleucid struggle. At
Eumeneia and Otrous we notice that the Pergamenian settlement
is planted still closer to the hieron than the Seleucid, which had been
placed near it.

The name Otrous probably connects the hatoikia with Otruai or
Otroia on lake Askania in Bithynia3. A coin type representing Aeneas
carrying Anchises and leading his little son Askanioscby the hand
may be interpreted as symbolizing an emigration from the Askanian
shore. The type previously described implies an emigration beyond
the sea; and we thus arrive at the conclusion that the mercenaries
settled in Otrous came partly from Europe and partly from theBithynian
lake Askania. From one of the European mercenary families sprang
Alexander the Macedonian, mentioned no. 638 and perhaps 639, who
may be identified by a highly probable conjecture with a person
commemorated on coins, AAE^ANAPOC • ACIAPXHC • ANG0HK6N •
OTPOHN£lN—evidently a man of property and influence, who had
held the Asiarchate. Probably it was he who enabled Otrous to take
its share in the burden imposed on Asian cities of finding persons at
intervals to fill such expensive but honourable positions in the pro-
vincial cultus4. Doubtless some guarantee was required that Otrous
would be able to fulfil its obligations, and Alexander aided it to give
the guarantee5. The Curators who were imposed for a time on

1 Upa yi) or xcopn. from this heroic name comes 'Arpofm

2 See Ch. X § 1 and 2, and p. 126. or 'Orpofla, and "Orpofos (cp. Kddofos

3 See Hist. Geogr. p. 189, where G. usually plur. KdSofoi).
Curtius's identification of Atreus and 4 See pp. 436 f.

Otreus (compare Tataion-Tottaion &c. 6 Hence he was oilcistes, no. 638.
p. 153, Hist. Geogr. p. 240) is quoted:
 
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