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Capture of Oechalia
''The Capture of Oechalia'' (traditionally ''The Sack of Oechalia'', ) is a fragmentary Greek epic that was variously attributed in Antiquity to either Homer or Creophylus of Samos; a tradition was reported that Homer gave the tale to Creophylus, in gratitude for guest-friendship (''xenia''), and that Creophylus wrote it down.〔Strabo, 14.18 reports the tradition but also quotes an epigram of the Alexandrian scholar-poet Callimachus in which the poem is made to speak, owning Creophylus for its begetter. The poem seems to exist in order to refute an ascription to Homer himself.〕
Oechalia (also known as the "city of Eurytus") was an ancient Greek city whose capture by Heracles was said to be the main subject of the epic. It is debated, based on a scholium on a line in Euripides' ''Medea'' whether Medea's poisoning of Creon may have been another feature,〔''Medea'' 264.〕 which Franz Stoessl suggested will have been a comparative aside in the telling of Deianira,〔Stoessel, ''Der Tod des Heracles'' (Zurich, 1945:16ff), noted in Malcolm Davies, "Deianeira and Medea: A foot-note to the pre-history of two myths", ''Mnemosyne'', Fourth Series, 42.3/4 (1989:469-472) p. 469 note 6.〕 in her original guise as the "man-destroyer" of her etymology: "the innocent Deianeira, whose murder of Heracles is tragically inadvertent, will be a later invention," Malcolm Davies asserts,〔Davies 1989:469; Davies raises doubts about the use of Medea as a parallel in .〕 "perhaps the brain-child of Sophocles."〔In Sophocles' ''Women of Trachis''.〕
The ancient Greek geographer Strabo noted in his ''Geographica'' that the true location of the city was unknown even to him, saying that various sources referred to Oechalia by many different names and placed it in various locations around Greece. Further complicating the factual details behind the epic is the fact that there seemed to have been several different cities called Oechalia, only one of which was discussed in it.〔Strabo. ''Geography'', 9.301.〕
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