otys

Updated: May 13, 2025

Though an amiable man, with no disposition to tyranny and still less to plunder, for his own benefit Agesilaus thus made himself the willing instrument of both, for the benefit of his various coadjutors and friends, whose power and consequence he identified with his own." Xenophon, however, in his Life of Agesilaus, spells it Otys; and this reading has been adopted by Grote.

Plutarch - Plutarch's Lives Volume III.

Terrible was their might and strength, and the thoughts of their hearts were great, and they made an attack upon the gods; of them is told the tale of Otys and Ephialtes who, as Homer says, dared to scale heaven, and would have laid hands upon the gods. Doubt reigned in the celestial councils.

Plato - Symposium