Strabo, Geography

Another Samian was Creophylus, who they say once received Homer as his guest and was rewarded with the attribution of the poem known as the Capture of Oichalia. But Callimachus indicates the converse in an Epigram, that Creophylus composed it but that it was called Homer’s as a result of the said hospitality:

I am the work of the Samian, who once received in his house the divine bard, and I celebrate Eurytus’ misfortunes and the flaxen-haired Iole; but I am known as a writing of Homer’s—dear Zeus, a great compliment to Creophylus!

And some say this man was Homer’s teacher, though others say it was not he but Aristeas of Proconnesus.

Clement of Alexandria, Miscellanies: see below, Testimonia to Panyassis.