Creophylus of Ephesus wrote Horoi of the Ephesians. Athenaeus 7 quotes the foundation: the settlers, hard-pressed for a site, asked the god where to plant the city. The oracle: settle where a fish shall show and a wild boar lead. At the spring Hypelaeus and the sacred harbour, fishermen were cooking; a fish leapt with the coals into brush, which caught, and a boar in the thicket ran up Mount Tracheia and was speared where Athena's temple later stood. In the twenty-second year the Ephesians crossed from the island, founded Tracheia and the parts toward Coressus, and set Artemis's temple on the agora and Pythian Apollo's at the harbour.
The fragments are collected in Müller's Fragments of the Greek Historians (vol. 4). He is dated, uncertainly, to the fifth or fourth century BCE. He is distinct from Creophylus of Samos the epic poet.
The work is an Ephesian ktisis: the fish, the boar, Tracheia, and the temples of Artemis and Apollo.
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