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Oechalia (also known as the "city of [[Eurytus]]") was an ancient Greek city whose capture by [[Heracles]] was said to be the main subject of the epic. It is debated, based on a [[scholium]] on a line in [[Medea (Euripides)|Euripides' ''Medea'']] whether [[Medea]]'s poisoning of [[Creon]] may have been another feature,<ref>''Medea'' 264.</ref> which [[Franz Stoessl]] suggested will have been a comparative aside in the telling of [[Deianira]],<ref>Stoessel, ''Der Tod des Heracles'' (Zurich, 1945:16ff), noted in Malcolm Davies, "Deianeira and Medea: A foot-note to the pre-history of two myths", ''Mnemosyne'', Fourth Series, '''42'''.3/4 (1989:469-472) p. 469 note 6.</ref> in her original guise as the "man-destroyer" of her etymology: "the innocent Deianeira, whose murder of Heracles is tragically inadvertent, will be a later invention," Malcolm Davies asserts,<ref>Davies 1989:469; Davies raises doubts about the use of Medea as a parallel in {{lang|grc|Οἰχαλίας Ἅλωσις}}.</ref> "perhaps the brain-child of [[Sophocles]]."<ref>In Sophocles' ''[[Women of Trachis]]''.</ref>