Oea (Attica)

Oea or Oia (Ancient Greek: Ὀία) or Oee or Oie (Οἴη) or Oe (Ὄη or Ὀή) was a deme of ancient Athens.

The location of Oea has been a matter of debate, with some situating it above the Pythium, to the west of Mount Aegaleos, to the north of the pass of Poecilum,^[1] and recent work putting the site northeast of Aspropyrgos.^[2][3]

In the Boule of 500, Oea held six seats, and the deme seems to have maintained this rough scale into the Roman period.^[4]

Notable citizens

• Damonides, Athenian musicologist and advisor to Pericles
• Eratosthenes, famous adulterer in Lysias' first speech
• Lamachus, Athenian general, son of Xenophanes
• Tydeus, Athenian general, son of Lamachus^[5]

References

1. Sophocles, Oed. Col. 1061, Οἰάτιδος ἐκ νόμου, with the Schol.
2. Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
3. Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 59, and directory notes accompanying. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
4. Dow, Sterling (April 1963). "The Attic Demes OA and OE". The American Journal of Philology. 84 (2): 166–181. doi:10.2307/292876. JSTOR 292876.
5. Mitchell, Lynette G. (2002-05-02). Greeks Bearing Gifts: The Public Use of Private Relationships in the Greek World, 435-323 BC. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521893305.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Attica". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.

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