Boeotia

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1. Boeotia - Noun

2. Boeotia - Proper noun

Meaning

a district of ancient Greece to the northwest of Athens

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Cult of Aphrodite seeAlso The epithet Aphrodite Acidalia was occasionally added to her name, after the spring she used for bathing, located in Boeotia ( Virgil I, 720). Source: Internet

Decline When war broke out afresh with Thebes, Agesilaus twice invaded Boeotia (in 378 BC and 377 BC), although he spent the next five years largely out of action due to an unspecified but apparently grave illness. Source: Internet

Such statues were found across the Greek speaking world, the preponderance of these were found at the sanctuaries of Apollo with more than one hundred from the sanctuary of Apollo Ptoios, Boeotia alone. Source: Internet

In any case, the alliance came at a price: Thebes's control of Boeotia was recognised, Thebes was to command solely on land and jointly at sea, and Athens was to pay two thirds of the campaign's cost. Source: Internet

Life was extremely provincial, with just one major carriage-road passing through the center of the large province of Boeotia even in the 1930s (beyond which horseback and cart took over; van Effenterre 1989). Source: Internet

Mardonius retreated to Boeotia to lure the Greeks into open terrain and the two sides eventually met near the city of Plataea (which had been razed the previous year). Source: Internet

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