Catalogue of Ships
Iolcus is mentioned by Homer, in the Catalogue of Ships in the "Iliad", and later in the "Odyssey"; he gives it the epithets of ἐϋκτιμένη ("well built") and εὐρύχορος ("with broad places", "spacious"). The "Bibliotheca" of Pseudo-Apollodorus says the city was founded by Cretheus, and to have been colonised by Minyans from Orchomenos.