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Quotes About Boeotia

The decisive battle was fought at the beginning of August 338 BCE on the banks of the Cephisus River in Boeotia
~ Roderick Beaton
Cadmus the Phoenician founds Thebes in Boeotia and introduces vulgar letters into Greece. Year of the world 2448.] 72 Since he introduced the Phoenician alphabet there, Boeotia should have been from its literate beginnings the most ingenious of all the nations of Greece; but it produced men of such doltish minds that "Boeotian" became a proverbial term for a man of slow wit.
~ Giambattista Vico