Lusia or Lousia ( grc, Λουσία) was a
deme
In Ancient Greece, a deme or ( grc, δῆμος, plural: demoi, δημοι) was a suburb or a subdivision of Athens and other city-states. Demes as simple subdivisions of land in the countryside seem to have existed in the 6th century BC and ear ...
of
ancient Attica, of the ''
phyle
''Phyle'' ( gr, φυλή, phulē, "tribe, clan"; pl. ''phylai'', φυλαί; derived from ancient Greek φύεσθαι "to descend, to originate") is an ancient Greek term for tribe or clan. Members of the same ''phyle'' were known as ''symphylet ...
''
Oeneïs, sending one delegate to the
Athenian Boule.
Stephanus of Byzantium notes it was named after a heroine named Lusia, a daughter of
Hyacinthus the Lacedaemonian.
The deme is attested in inscriptions; one a funerary inscription of a townsperson, another describing the deme's contributions to construction of the
Eleusinion.
The site of Lousia is in the Kephisos valley, west of modern Athens.
References
Populated places in ancient Attica
Former populated places in Greece
Demoi
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