The ancient Acraephia ( Acraephnia, Acraephnium or Acraephium) was built east of the lake Kopais and northwest of Lake Iliki. With a territory of 47 km2 and a perimeter of 34.6 km, Acraephnium was one of the smaller cities of Boeotia; there were no secondary settlements (komai) in its countryside (chora). However, Acraephnium constituted one of the earliest members of the league of Boeotian cities under the leadership of Thebes and it participated successively in the three Boeotian Leagues....

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The remains of an agrarian and stock farming settlement of the 3rd millennium BC have been unearthed at Litharés of Boeotia. The nucleus of the settlement has been excavated; the settlement developed on either side of straight road, as did the cemetery, which contained fifty graves. The quality and abundance of movable finds discovered in the settlement reveal the varied nature of the inhabitant’s everyday activities, and suggest the existence of specialized craftsmen and the community’s...

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The cave of Sarakenos is the most important among the hundreds of small and larger caves and rock shelters found in the area of Copais. It was not affected by the fluctuations of the now reclaimed lake, for it is situated at an altitude of 190 m, 100 m above the modern plain of Copais. It is a large cave, extending over 3,000 m2 with a sizeable, luminous entrance and could have been used as a dwelling, storage area, burial ground and so forth. It was initially excavated by Th. Spylopoulos;...

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Coronea in antiquity was a rather isolated community situated on a prominent steep hill among ridges of the Mt. Helicon. It is mentioned in the Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad, however very few traces of its prehistoric past have been discovered so far. The fortifications point to a late Archaic-early Classical dating and apparently the city flourished until the late Hellenistic period. Archaeological findings attest that the community did not cease to exist throughout Late Antique, Byzantine...

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