Boeotia

Boeotia is a department in central Greece. It is situated in the north of the Gulf of Corinth. This region was a country of ancient Greece. The natives, though brave, were mere tillers of the soil under a heavy atmosphere, innocent of culture, and regarded as boors and dullards by the educated classes of Greece, and particularly of Athens, and yet Hesiod, Pindar, and Plutarch were natives of Boeotia. Thebes was the chief city of Boeotia.