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🌍 Boiotia

  • <span class="a type-6581" data-type_id="6581" data-object_id="10149326" id="y:ui_data:show_project_type_object-6581_10149326">📖 Pausanias 1.39.5</span><span class="separator"> </span><span class="a type-6581" data-type_id="6581" data-object_id="10149746" id="y:ui_data:show_project_type_object-6581_10149746">📖 Pausanias 9.34.5</span><span class="separator"> </span><span class="a type-6581" data-type_id="6581" data-object_id="10774303" id="y:ui_data:show_project_type_object-6581_10774303">📖 Pausanias 9.24.2</span><span class="separator"> </span><span class="a type-6581" data-type_id="6581" data-object_id="11291362" id="y:ui_data:show_project_type_object-6581_11291362">📖 Pausanias 9.27.6-9.27.8</span><span class="separator"> </span><span class="a type-6581" data-type_id="6581" data-object_id="11291443" id="y:ui_data:show_project_type_object-6581_11291443">📖 Pausanias 9.35.1-9.35.7</span>
  • Alternative names
    Boeotia
    Alternative name
    🌍 Aonia (alt. Boiotia)
    Information
    region on the Greek mainland
    Pleiades
    https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/540689
    Cult site of
    👤 Dionysos (Olympian) Olympian god
    Place of birth of
    👥 the Spartoi of Thebes spring from planted dragon's teeth at Thebes👤 Odysseus king of Ithaca, leader of the Cephallenian contingent at Troy
    Place of death of
    👤 Metioche (Boiotian) daughter of Orion👤 Menippe (Boiotian) daughter of Orion👤 Cithairon (personification) personification of the mountain👤 Ino daughter of Cadmos, becomes goddess Leucothea👤 Helicon personification of the mountain👤 Actaion devoured by his own dogs👤 the Serpent of Ares killed by Cadmos at Thebes👥 the Suitors of Atalante compete to win Atalante
    Settled by
    👥 the Aonians early Boiotian people, eponym of Aonian Plain👥 the Temmicians ethnic collective that settles Boiotia👥 the Leleges of Argos ethnic collective on mainland Greece👥 the Hyantians people who reside west of Thebes👥 the Pelasgians ethnic collective👤 Cadmos (Theban) king of Thebes, originally from Phoinicia or Egypt
    Settled from
    🌍 Cape Sounion (Attica)🌍 Thrace (N. Greece) region of northern Greece🌍 Phoinicia region in the Levant
    Eponym
    👤 Boiotos eponym of the Boiotians, son of Itonos or Poseidon
    Derives etymology from
    👤 the Cow of Thebes followed by Cadmos
    Ruled by
    👤 Athamas (Orchomenian) son of Aiolos, sometimes Theban👤 Cadmos (Theban) king of Thebes, originally from Phoinicia or Egypt👤 Xanthos (Theban) son of Ptolemaios son of Damasichthon👤 Cecrops (Athenian II) son of Erechtheus
    Conquered by
    👤 Cadmos (Theban) king of Thebes, originally from Phoinicia or Egypt
    Mentioned in Text
    Apollodoros, EpitomeApollodoros, LibraryLycophron, AlexandraPausaniasHesiod, Shield of HeraclesStraboLucian, Dialogues of the GodsLucian, AstrologyCallimachus, Hymn to DelosCallimachus, Hymn to AthenaCorinnaPs-Plutarch, On RiversDiodoros, LibraryHesiodD-Scholia, IliadHesiod, EhoiaiOvid, MetamorphosesServius, Scholia on GeorgicsVergil, EcloguesLucian, Zeus RantsScholia on Callimachus, AetiaAntoninus Liberalis, MetamorphosesSophocles, ElectraPliny, Natural HistoryConon, Narrations
    Local traditions reported by
    📖 Pausanias 1.39.5 📖 Pausanias 9.34.5 📖 Pausanias 9.24.2 📖 Pausanias 9.27.6-9.27.8 📖 Pausanias 9.35.1-9.35.7
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