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Ocalea (town)
Ocalea (Greek: , ''Ōkalea'', rarely ; later ) was a town in antiquity in Boeotia, Greece, on the south shore of Lake Copais.
Ocalea lay roughly halfway between Alalcomenae and Aliartos (ancient ''Haliartus''), about 30 ''stadia'' (5.5 km) from each.〔Strabo, 9.2.26-9.2.27.〕 Ancient sources often mention it alongside Mantinea and Medeon, which suggests that they were close by.〔E.g. Homer ''Iliad'' 2.501; Dionysius of Byzantium, ''Description of Greece'' 99.〕 The short distance between Mantinea and Ocalea seems to be the reason why the mythical figure Aglaïa, daughter of Mantineus, was sometimes also known as Ocalea.
==Origins==
Most sources that discuss the origin of the town's name explain it as coming from the Greek adjective , "quick". The early "D" scholia on the ''Iliad'' explain this as a reference to an unnamed river flowing past it; the geographical writer Stephanus of Byzantium explains it as a reference to the brief journey from the nearby town Thespies to Thebes.〔Schol. D on ''Iliad'' 2.501; Stephanus 706 s.v. . Herodian ''De prosodia catholica'' iii.1 p. 284 gives both explanations. Stephanus and Herodian seem to be under the mistaken impression that Ocalea lay on the route from Thespies to Thebes; but Thespies is some way from where the lake was.〕
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