Capture of Oechalia

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The Capture of Oechalia was an epic of the ancient Greek Epic Cycle variously attributed to both Homer and Creophilus of Samos; some sources say Homer gave the tale to Creophilus so that he could write it down. 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. 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.^[1]