CREOPHYLUS of Samos, one of the earliest Greek epic poets. According to an epigram of Callimachus (quoted in Strabo xiv. p. 638) he was the author of a poem called The Capture of Oechalia. He was said to have been a friend of Homer, who, according to another tradition, was himself the author of the Capture, and presented it to Creophylus.
See F. G. Welcker, Der epische Cyclus