Oechalia

Place · slug: oechalia

After the Labors: Iphitus’s Murder and Sale to Omphale
Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (labors complete; Eurytus and Iole; murder of Iphitus; Delphic sentence of servitude; Hermes sells Heracles to Omphale of Lydia)
Sack of Oechalia and the Taking of Iole (Apollodorus)
Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (revenge on Eurytus; city sacked; Iole taken as captive concubine; children of Eurytus slain)
Iole at Trachis: Lichas’s Lie and the Truth (Sophocles)
Heroes — Heracles · Attic tragic — Sophocles *Trachiniae* (captive train; Lichas’s false tale; messenger’s exposure; Deianeira recognizes Iole as rival)
Hyllus Marries Iole
Heroes — Heracles aftermath / Trachiniae close / Heraclid marriage · Sophoclean / Apollodorean — dying Heracles exacts Hyllus’s marriage to Iole
Thamyris Challenges the Muses
Local and lesser — Thracian / poetic hybris · Homeric (*Iliad* 2) / Apollodorean / Pausanian