[1] Mythical place in Homer, Catalogue of the Pylians
Mythical place in Homer, in the Catalogue of the Pylians (Hom. Il. 2,594ff.). According to the narrative context, O. must be located in north western Messenia. It was from O. that the Thracian singer Thamyris came to Dorium, where the Muses robbed him of his gift of song. Homer's interpreters equate O. with Andania (Str. 8,3,6; 8,4,5;…
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Frey, Alexandra (Basle),
Kramolisch, Herwig (Eppelheim) and
Külzer, Andreas (Vienna),
“Oechalia”, in:
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