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Capture of Oechalia

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481: 435: 125:. 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. In his play 121:
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
100:, 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," 522: 151:, had just returned from the island after having taken her, as well as other Oechalians, captive in the opening scenes of the play. When the wife of 189:
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.
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Davies 1989:469; Davies raises doubts about the use of Medea as a parallel in
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was said to be the main subject of the epic. It is debated, based on a
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suggested will have been a comparative aside in the telling of
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however seems to locate the city of Oechalia on the island of
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Greek epic attributed to either Homer or Creophylus of Samos
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that was variously attributed in Antiquity to either
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Index

Ancient Greek
fragmentary
epic
Homer
Creophylus of Samos
guest-friendship (xenia)
Eurytus
Heracles
scholium
Euripides' Medea
Medea
Creon
Franz Stoessl
Deianira
Malcolm Davies
Sophocles
Strabo
Geographica
Greece
The Women of Trachis
Sophocles
Euboea
Heracles
Eurytus
Iole
Heracles
Deianira
Lichas
Strabo
epigram

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