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nouna district of ancient Greece to the northwest of Athenspart of:
Definition that contains boeotia
- orion (Greek mythology) a giant Boeotian hunter who pursued the Pleiades and was eventually slain by Artemis; was then placed in the sky as a constellation
- thebes an ancient Greek city in Boeotia destroyed by Alexander the Great in 336 BC
- boeotian of or relating to ancient Boeotia or its people or to the dialect spoken there in classical times
- cadmus (Greek mythology) the brother of Europa and traditional founder of Thebes in Boeotia
- aeolic dialect the dialect of Ancient Greek spoken in Thessaly and Boeotia and Aeolis
- eolic the dialect of Ancient Greek spoken in Thessaly and Boeotia and Aeolis
- plataea a former town in Boeotia; site of a battle between the Greeks and Persians in 479 BC
- aeolic the dialect of Ancient Greek spoken in Thessaly and Boeotia and Aeolis