[1][2][3] Oechalia is mentioned by Homer in the Catalogue of Ships of the Iliad, where it was part of the territories ruled by Podalirius and Machaon.
[4] 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.
Homer, equivocally, and Apollodorus of Athens and Aristarchus of Samothrace placed it in Thessaly.
[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.