Oenoe (Icaria)

Oenoe or Oenoë or Oinoe (Ancient Greek: Οἰνόη) was a small town on the northwest coast of the island of Icaria.[1][2][3] The name of the town seems to be derived from the wine grown in its neighbourhood on the slopes of Mount Pramnus, though others believe that the Icarian Oenoë was a colony of the Attic town of the same name. During the 6th century BCE, Oenoe and the rest of Icaria became part of the sea empire of Polycrates, and during the 5th century BCE, the Icarian cities of Oenoe and Thermae were members of the Athenian-dominated Delian League. During the 2nd century BCE, the island was colonized by Samos.[4] At this time, the Tauropolion, the temple of Artemis, was built at Oenoe.[1] Coins of the city represented Artemis and a bull, with a legend «ΟΙ» or «ΟΙΝΑΙ[ΩΝ]».[5]

Oenoe's site is located near Kampos, Evdilos.[6][7]

References

1. Strabo. Geographica. 14.1.19. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
2. Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. s.v.
3. Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists 1.30.
4. Graham Shipley, A History of Samos, c 800–188 B.C. (Oxford) 1987:205.
5. Barclay V. Head, Historia numorum: a manual of Greek numismatics vol. 2, no. 602, noted by Croon 1961:note 4.
6. Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
7. Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 61, and directory notes accompanying.

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