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Creophylus (in Greek Kreophylos) is the name of a legendary early Greek singer, native to Samos or Chios. He was said to have been a contemporary of Homer and author of the lost epic Capture of Oechalia. According to some sources Homer gave the poem to Creophylus in return for hospitality; one source says that Panyassis of Halicarnassus, in turn, stole it from Creophylus. Panyassis, however, is a much later poet who worked in writing: the story is presumably a way of saying that Panyassis, in his literary epic on the life of Heracles, plagiarised the work of Creophylus.
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- Greek epic fragments ed. and tr. Martin L. West (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003) pp. 172-177.
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