Boeotia is an English word with synonyms like district or territory. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Boeotia meaning
A historical region and modern regional unit of the administrative region of Central Greece, Greece, formerly renowned for the French proverbially equating the residents with philistinism. Capital: Livadeia.
Using Boeotia
- The main meaning on this page is: A historical region and modern regional unit of the administrative region of Central Greece, Greece, formerly renowned for the French proverbially equating the residents with philistinism. Capital: Livadeia.
- Useful related words include: district, territory, territorial dominion, dominion.
- In the example corpus, boeotia often appears in combinations such as: in boeotia, of boeotia, invaded boeotia.
Context around Boeotia
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 7 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 11 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Boeotia
- In this selection, "boeotia" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 28.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, invaded, ptoios, virgil, alone and devoted stand out and add context to how "boeotia" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include apollo ptoios boeotia alone and control of boeotia was recognised. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "boeotia" sits close to words such as aadi, aakash and aayush, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with boeotia
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Trophonius Trophonius was an oracle at Lebadea of Boeotia devoted to the chthonian Zeus Trophonius. (15 words)
With Boeotia in hostile hands, Phocis and Locris became untenable and quickly fell under the control of hostile oligarchs. (19 words)
Two months later, the Athenians under Myronides invaded Boeotia, and winning the Battle of Oenophyta gained control of the whole country except Thebes. (23 words)
In any case, the alliance came at a price: Thebes's control of Boeotia was recognised, Thebes was to command solely on land and jointly at sea, and Athens was to pay two thirds of the campaign's cost. (39 words)
Decline When war broke out afresh with Thebes, Agesilaus twice invaded Boeotia (in 378 BC and 377 BC), although he spent the next five years largely out of action due to an unspecified but apparently grave illness. (37 words)
Life was extremely provincial, with just one major carriage-road passing through the center of the large province of Boeotia even in the 1930s (beyond which horseback and cart took over; van Effenterre 1989). (34 words)
Example sentences (11)
Cult of Aphrodite seeAlso The epithet Aphrodite Acidalia was occasionally added to her name, after the spring she used for bathing, located in Boeotia ( Virgil I, 720).
Decline When war broke out afresh with Thebes, Agesilaus twice invaded Boeotia (in 378 BC and 377 BC), although he spent the next five years largely out of action due to an unspecified but apparently grave illness.
In any case, the alliance came at a price: Thebes's control of Boeotia was recognised, Thebes was to command solely on land and jointly at sea, and Athens was to pay two thirds of the campaign's cost.
Life was extremely provincial, with just one major carriage-road passing through the center of the large province of Boeotia even in the 1930s (beyond which horseback and cart took over; van Effenterre 1989).
Mardonius retreated to Boeotia to lure the Greeks into open terrain and the two sides eventually met near the city of Plataea (which had been razed the previous year).
Pausanias also mentions that at Mount Laphystion in Boeotia, that there was a statue of Heracles Charops ("with bright eyes"), where the Boeotians said Heracles brought up Cerberus.
Such statues were found across the Greek speaking world, the preponderance of these were found at the sanctuaries of Apollo with more than one hundred from the sanctuary of Apollo Ptoios, Boeotia alone.
Thus, since the hero Trophonius (from Lebadea in Boeotia) is called Zeus Trophonius, this can be represented in English (as it would be in Latin) as Jupiter Trophonius.
Trophonius Trophonius was an oracle at Lebadea of Boeotia devoted to the chthonian Zeus Trophonius.
Two months later, the Athenians under Myronides invaded Boeotia, and winning the Battle of Oenophyta gained control of the whole country except Thebes.
With Boeotia in hostile hands, Phocis and Locris became untenable and quickly fell under the control of hostile oligarchs.
Common combinations with boeotia
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- in boeotia 4×
- of boeotia 3×
- invaded boeotia 2×
- boeotia in 2×