[1][2][3][4] At the time of Strabo it was only a village and the geographer points out that it was a vestige of the city that was destroyed by Heracles.
[5] According to Greek mythology, King Eurytus of Oechalia had promised the hand of his beautiful daughter Iole to whoever defeated him in an archery competition.
[6] Also, Demetrius of Scepsis placed it in Arcadia,[7] and Homer also calls the Oechalia in Messenia the city of Eurytus in both the Iliad[8] and the Odyssey,[9] and this identification was followed by Pherecydes of Athens and Pausanias.
[10] Strabo makes mention of all these possibilities but does not offer any additional data on the concrete location of the Oechalia of Thessaly.
[11] The site of Oechalia is tentatively placed at the kastro of Ano Potamia (Άνω Ποταμιά) in the municipal unit of Kyme.