Oechalia (Thessaly)

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For the town in Trachis in ancient Thessaly, see Oechalia (Trachis).

Oechalia or Oichalia (

romanized: Oikhalía) was a town in ancient Thessaly, on the Peneius, between Pelinna to the east and Tricca to the west, not far from Ithome.[1][2][3]

Oechalia is mentioned by

Machaon.[4]

According to

The Trachiniae) and Hecataeus of Miletus (who locates Oechalia near Eretria) were aligned among with those who identified this Oechalia with the Euboean location.[5] Also, Demetrius of Scepsis placed it in Arcadia.,[6] and Homer also calls the Oechalia in Messenia the city of Eurytus in both the Iliad[7] and the Odyssey,[8] and this identification was followed by Pherecydes of Athens and Pausanias.[9] Strabo makes mention of all these possibilities but does not offer any additional data on the concrete location of the Oechalia of Thessaly.[10]

The site's location is unknown.[11] The modern town of Oichalia, also close to Pelinna and Tricca, echoes the ancient name, but is east of the former contrary to the location's description in ancient sources.

References

  1. ^ Strabo. Geographica. Vol. viii. pp. 339, 350, ix. p. 438, x. p. 448. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  2. ^ Pausanias (1918). "2.3". Description of Greece. Vol. 4. Translated by W. H. S. Jones; H. A. Ormerod. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann – via Perseus Digital Library.
  3. ^ Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v.
  4. ^ Homer. Iliad. Vol. 2.730.
  5. ISBN 84-249-3524-1
  6. ^ Strabo. Geographica. Vol. 8.3.6. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  7. ^ Homer. Iliad. Vol. 2.596.
  8. ^ Homer. Odyssey. Vol. 21.13.
  9. ^ Pausanias (1918). "2.3". Description of Greece. Vol. 4. Translated by W. H. S. Jones; H. A. Ormerod. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann – via Perseus Digital Library.
  10. ^ Strabo. Geographica. Vol. 9.5.17, 10.1.10. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  11. ISBN 0-691-03169-X
    ), Map 55.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Oechalia". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.


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