. The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography. r, for a long period, a powerful rival,and retaining its position as capital of its own plain. The chieftowns were formed into a coniederacy, under the presidency ofThebes : of these there Avere originally fourteen, of Avhich Ave cancertainly name ten, viz. : Thebes, Orchomenus, Lebadea, Coronea,Copa?, Haliartus, Thespia?, Tanagra, Auithedon, and Plata?a, whilethe remaining fuiu are supposed to have been Ocalea, Chalia, On-chestus, and Eleuthera^. Oropus AAas probably once a member, butafterwar
. The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography. r, for a long period, a powerful rival,and retaining its position as capital of its own plain. The chieftowns were formed into a coniederacy, under the presidency ofThebes : of these there Avere originally fourteen, of Avhich Ave cancertainly name ten, viz. : Thebes, Orchomenus, Lebadea, Coronea,Copa?, Haliartus, Thespia?, Tanagra, Auithedon, and Plata?a, whilethe remaining fuiu are supposed to have been Ocalea, Chalia, On-chestus, and Eleuthera^. Oropus AAas probably once a member, butafterwards btcame subject to Athens ; and Plataea withdrcAv fromthe confederacy as early as ex. 519. The towns of Boeotia flou-rished until the extinction of independence, consequent upon thebattle of Clia?ronea in 338 and the capture of Thebes in 335. Theythen sunk so fast that in the Eoman age Tanagra and Thespije werethe only ones remaining : the rest were a heap of ruins. We shall 3 The expressions were Botco-ta v? and Bolcqtlov gv<; ;—Qicriv A670C9 el (p^vyoixev, Botwrtav 400 BCEOTIA. Book describe tliese towns in order, commencing from the , and pro-ceeding round by the W. to the S. CiLaeronea, the key of Boeotia on its noi-thern frontier, was situatedat the edge of the valley of the Cephissus, with its citadel posted on asteep granite rock. It was the scene of engagements between theAthenians and Boeotians in 447. between the Macedonians underPhilip and the Boeotians in 338, and between the Romans underSulla and the forces of ^Mithiidates in 86. Orchomenus was strongly posted on a hill over-looking the marshes ofthe Copaic Lake, theCephissus ^winding likea serpent ^ about thebase on the S. and E.,while the small riverMelas washes its north-ern side. The wallsCoin of Orchomenus. extended to a distance of two miles in cir-cumference : the most remarkable object in the town was the Treasuryof Atreus, the ruins of which still remain. Orchomenus was at one period t
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