# Oea (Attica)

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Ancient Athenian deme

**Oea** or **Oia** ([Ancient Greek](/source/Ancient_Greek_language): Ὀία) or **Oee** or **Oie** (Οἴη) or **Oe** (Ὄη or Ὀή) was a [deme](/source/Deme) of [ancient Athens](/source/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](/source/Mount_Aegaleos), to the north of the pass of [Poecilum](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Poecilum&action=edit&redlink=1),[1] and recent work putting the site northeast of [Aspropyrgos](/source/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](/source/Damon_of_Athens), Athenian musicologist and advisor to [Pericles](/source/Pericles)

- [Eratosthenes](/source/On_the_Murder_of_Eratosthenes), famous adulterer in [Lysias](/source/Lysias)' first speech

- [Lamachus](/source/Lamachus), Athenian general, son of Xenophanes

- Tydeus, Athenian general, son of Lamachus[5]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** [Sophocles](/source/Sophocles), *Oed. Col.* 1061, Οἰάτιδος ἐκ νόμου, with the Schol.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** [Lund University](/source/Lund_University). [*Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire*](https://imperium.ahlfeldt.se/places/31165.html).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** [Talbert, Richard](/source/Richard_Talbert), ed. (2000). [*Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World*](/source/Barrington_Atlas_of_the_Greek_and_Roman_World). Princeton University Press. p. 59. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-691-03169-9](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-691-03169-9), with accompanying Map-by-Map Directory.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** Dow, Sterling (April 1963). "The Attic Demes OA and OE". *The American Journal of Philology*. **84** (2): 166–181. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.2307/292876](https://doi.org/10.2307%2F292876). [JSTOR](/source/JSTOR_(identifier)) [292876](https://www.jstor.org/stable/292876).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** Mitchell, Lynette G. (2002-05-02). [*Greeks Bearing Gifts: The Public Use of Private Relationships in the Greek World, 435-323 BC*](https://books.google.com/books?id=FbVPFJQtoZgC&q=tydeus+son+of+%22lamachus%22&pg=PA66). Cambridge University Press. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9780521893305](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780521893305).

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the [public domain](/source/Public_domain): [Smith, William](/source/William_Smith_(lexicographer)), ed. (1854–1857). "Attica". *[Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography](/source/Dictionary_of_Greek_and_Roman_Geography)*. London: John Murray.

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