Boiotia in Antiquity

Albert Schachter is Emeritus Hiram Mills Professor of Classics in the Department of History and Classical Studies at McGill University, Montréal. His major publication is Cults of Boiotia (four volumes, 1981–94), and he also edits the electronic journal Teiresias. Together with G. Argoud and G. Vottero, he brought out the late Paul Roesch's Les inscriptions de Thespies (an online publication). Hans Beck is Professor of Ancient History, John McNaughton Chair of Classics, and Director of Classical Studies in the Department of History and Classical Studies, McGill University. He is co-author, with John Buckler, of Central Greece and the Politics of Power in the Fourth Century BC (2008), editor of A Companion to Ancient Greek Government (2013) and co-editor, with Antonio Duplá, Martin Jehne and Francisco Pina Polo, of Consuls and Res Publica: Holding High Office in the Roman Republic (2011).

Part I. Introduction: 1. Boiotian beginnings: the creation of an ethnos; Part II. History: Boiotian: 2. Kadmos and the implications of the tradition for Boiotian history; 3. Boiotia in the sixth century BC; 4. The early Boiotoi: from alliance to federation; 5. Politics and personalities in classical Thebes; 6. Tanagra: the geographical and historical context; 7. From hegemony to disaster: Thebes from 362 to 335; 8. Pausanias and Boiotia; Part III. History: Boiotian and Other: 9. The politics of dedication: two Athenian dedications at the sanctuary of Apollo Ptoieus in Boiotia; 10. The seer Tisamenos and the Klytiadai; Part IV. Boiotian Institutions: 11. Gods in the service of the state: the Boiotian experience; 12. Boiotian military elites (with an appendix on the funereal stelai); 13. Three generations of magistrates from Akraiphia; Part V. Literature: 14. Simonides' elegy on Plataia: the occasion of its performance; 15. The singing contest of Kithairon and Helikon: Korinna fr. 654 PMG col. i and ii.1-11: content and context; 16. Ovid and Boiotia; Part VI. Cult: 17. The Daphnephoria of Thebes; 18. Reflections on an inscription from Tanagra; 19. Egyptian cults and local elites in Boiotia; 20. Evolutions of a mystery cult: the Theban Kabiroi; 21. The Mouseia of Thespiai: organization and development; 22. Tilphossa: the site and its cults; 23. A consultation of Trophonios (IG 7.4136).