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Oechalia (Euboea)

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to whoever defeated him in an archery competition. Heracles beat him but Eurytus refused to keep his promise, so Heracles sacked the city, killed Eurytus and kidnapped Iole. However, there was great discussion in antiquity about whether this Oechalia referred to this city, or that of
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makes mention of all these possibilities but does not offer any additional data on the concrete location of the Oechalia of Thessaly.
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it was only a village and the geographer points out that it was a vestige of the city that was destroyed by
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placed it in Arcadia, and Homer also calls the Oechalia in Messenia the city of Eurytus in both the
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38°36′10″N 24°05′59″E / 38.602679°N 24.099827°E / 38.602679; 24.099827
Ancient Greek
ancient Euboea
Eretria
Strabo
Heracles
Greek mythology
King Eurytus of Oechalia
Iole
Thessaly
Trachis
Thessaly
Arcadia
Messenia
Capture of Oechalia
Creophylus of Samos
Sophocles
The Trachiniae
Hecataeus of Miletus
Eretria
Apollodorus of Athens
Aristarchus of Samothrace
Demetrius of Scepsis
Iliad
Odyssey
Pherecydes of Athens
Pausanias
Strabo
Ano Potamia
Kyme

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