Boeotia

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historical region region of ancient Greece

Boeotia is a region of ancient Greece known for its fertile plains, prominent city-states like Thebes, and its role as a setting and cultural backdrop in early Greek poetry and mythology.

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All labels observed (10)

Label Occurrences
Boeotia canonical 137
ancient Boeotia 2
southern Boeotia 2

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf historical region ⓘ
region of ancient Greece ⓘ
associatedWithAuthor Hesiod ⓘ
borders Attica ⓘ
Euboea ⓘ
Locris ⓘ
Phocis ⓘ
contains Ascra ⓘ
Chaeronea ⓘ
Haliartus ⓘ
Lebadea ⓘ
Orchomenus ⓘ
Plataea ⓘ
Tanagra ⓘ
Thebes ⓘ
Thespiae ⓘ
country Greek Antiquity ⓘ
surface form: Ancient Greece
hasCapital Thebes ⓘ
hasDialect Aeolic Greek ⓘ
surface form: Boeotian Greek
hasEthnicGroup Boeotians ⓘ
hasGeographicalFeature Cephissus River ⓘ
surface form: Boeotian Cephissus River

Lake Copais ⓘ
fertile plains ⓘ
mountain ranges ⓘ
hasPoliticalOrganization Boeotian League ⓘ
knownFor Theban hegemony in Greece ⓘ
agriculture ⓘ
grain production ⓘ
horse breeding ⓘ
role in Greek mythology ⓘ
role in early Greek poetry ⓘ
locatedIn central Greece ⓘ
surface form: Central Greece

mainland Greece ⓘ
mentionedIn Hesiodic poetry ⓘ
Homeric epics ⓘ
mythologicalAssociation Cadmus ⓘ
Epigoni ⓘ
Heracles ⓘ
Oedipus ⓘ
Seven Against Thebes ⓘ
participatedIn Greco-Persian Wars ⓘ
Peloponnesian War ⓘ
partOf Boeotian League ⓘ
siteOf Battle of Chaeronea ⓘ
Battle of Delium ⓘ
Battle of Plataea ⓘ
timePeriod Archaic Greece ⓘ
Classical Greece ⓘ
Hellenistic period ⓘ

Referenced by (148)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Hesiod's Theogony → associatedPlace → Boeotia ⓘ
Attica → borders → Boeotia ⓘ
Fourth Sacred War → location → Boeotia ⓘ
Third Sacred War → location → Boeotia ⓘ
Hesiod → associatedWithPlace → Boeotia ⓘ
Euboea → nearToIsland → Boeotia ⓘ
this entity surface form: Boiótia (Boeotia) mainland
Hesiod's Works and Days → setting → Boeotia ⓘ
subject surface form: Works and Days
Phocis → borders → Boeotia ⓘ
Semele → associatedRegion → Boeotia ⓘ
Almus → associatedWith → Boeotia ⓘ
Luke the Evangelist → associatedWith → Boeotia ⓘ
Aeolic Greek → spokenIn → Boeotia ⓘ
Works of Hesiod → placeOfOrigin → Boeotia ⓘ
Kriophoros → associatedWithRegion → Boeotia ⓘ
central Greece → containsRegion → Boeotia ⓘ
subject surface form: Central Greece
East Attica regional unit → borders → Boeotia ⓘ
Thebes → capitalOf → Boeotia ⓘ
Simmias of Thebes → region → Boeotia ⓘ
West Attica regional unit → borderedBy → Boeotia ⓘ
this entity surface form: Boeotia regional unit
Battle of Delium → location → Boeotia ⓘ
Battle of Delium → combatant → Boeotia ⓘ
Battle of Delium → theaterOfWar → Boeotia ⓘ
Battle of Delium → associatedRegion → Boeotia ⓘ
Corinthian War → mainTheater → Boeotia ⓘ
Mount Parnassus → locatedIn → Boeotia ⓘ
Archidamian War → belligerent → Boeotia ⓘ
Daphnephoria → heldInRegion → Boeotia ⓘ
Southern Greece → contains → Boeotia ⓘ
Plutarch → bornIn → Boeotia ⓘ
Locris → borders → Boeotia ⓘ
Pausanias’ Description of Greece → describes → Boeotia ⓘ
Treasury of the Boeotians → associatedRegion → Boeotia ⓘ
Battle of Chaeronea → location → Boeotia ⓘ
Lysander → diedIn → Boeotia ⓘ
Peloponnesian League → hasMember → Boeotia ⓘ
Battle of Plataea → locatedIn → Boeotia ⓘ
Boeotians → country → Boeotia ⓘ
Boeotians → ethnonymDerivedFrom → Boeotia ⓘ
Pammenes of Thebes → placeOfActivity → Boeotia ⓘ
Pammenes of Thebes → region → Boeotia ⓘ
Aristaeus → worshipPlace → Boeotia ⓘ
Battle of Orchomenus (352 BCE) → hasLocation → Boeotia ⓘ
Battle of Orchomenus (352 BCE) → involvedRegion → Boeotia ⓘ
Gulf of Corinth → borderedByRegion → Boeotia ⓘ
Apollo Musagetes → worshippedIn → Boeotia ⓘ
Theban-led coalition → militaryTheater → Boeotia ⓘ
Mount Helicon → locatedIn → Boeotia ⓘ
Pindar → regionOfOrigin → Boeotia ⓘ
Thesmophoros → cultCenter → Boeotia ⓘ
Orphic gold tablets → foundIn → Boeotia ⓘ