Boeotians

Related to Boeotians: Boeotia Prefecture

Boeotians

inhabitants of rural Greek district; considered by Athenians to be dolts. [Gk. Folklore: Brewer Dictionary, 124]

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Sparta's principal allies--the Boeotians, the Corinthians, the Megarians, and the Eleans--refused to go along with the treaty (5.17 and 5.21), partly because it allowed Sparta and Athens to revise its terms without consulting them.

Thucydides on policy, strategy, and war termination

He ordered, however, that the sacrifice of the deer be performed by his seer instead of the one appointed to the task by the Boeotians. The angry Boiotarchs forbade him to sacrifice against Boiotian laws and customs, and their emissaries threw down the offering.

Greek perspectives on the justness and merits of the Trojan War

400 BC) implied that such stony soils distinguished the character and history of Athenians with their democratic and philosophical ideals, from Boeotians and Thessalians.

Rocks, views, soils and plants at the temples of ancient Greece

At Plataea, the Greek allies of Persia who were pitted against the Athenians included the Boeotians, Locrians, Thessalians, Phocians, and the Macedonians.

The forgotten empire: teaching ancient Persian history in a world history class

However, at that time theory was in bad repute in biology, and I was afraid of what Gauss, the mathematician, called the "clamor of the Boeotians".

Is Paul A. Weiss' and Ludwig von Bertalanffy's system thinking still valid today?

When the Boeotians complained about the desecration of Delion to the Athenians, they cited the Athenian misuse of sacred water, which should have been left untouched except when used for ritual sprinkling before a sacrifice.

Mediating difference in classical antiquity: the Greek sanctuary bath

Another example is Hanson's picture of the Boeotians attacking the central-Greek city of Plataea with a "pressurized concoction of sulfur, coal, and pitch" sent through a hollowed-out beam; 200 defenders were incinerated.

A war without heroes

182A-C) tells us that the Boeotians (Pindar's native people) and the Eleans (the sponsors of the Olympics) were completely unashamed in their conduct of man/boy love, whereas the Athenians and Spartans were exceptions to the norm in their ambivalence.

Sex in the gym: athletic trainers and pedagogical pederasty

This controversy was heightened in Plato's lifetime, when, in the aftermath of a decisive defeat of Sparta by the Boeotians at Leuktra in 371, the larger portion of them, the Messenians, finally achieved their collective freedom and established themselves as free Greek citizens of the restored (as they saw it) free city of Messene.

To die for? Paul Cartledge sees ancient Spartan society and its fierce code of honour as something still relevant today

(11.) The army is composed not so much of Greeks as of Thessalians, Boeotians, Megarians, Arcadians, Achaians, Lacedaemonians, and Athenians; as such, it is a miniature image of Hellas in its rivalries and jealousies (Delebecquc 1947, 47-8).

Xenophon's Philosophic Odyssey: On the Anabasis and Plato's Republic

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