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A poet and exponent of didactic epic. He lived in Ascra of Boeotia before 700 BC. His most celebrated works are the Theogony and Works and Days. Together with Homer, Hesiod is one of the most important primary sources for Greek mythology and mythography. His Works and Days is also the earliest literary work providing evidence on contemporary everyday life in Greece and early economic thinking. |
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History of the Archaeological Research in Boeotia |
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Housing architecture in late Medieval and Ottoman Boeotia |
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The archaeological evidence for rural housing in Boeotia during the Late Medieval or Frankish and Early Ottoman periods is rather limited. The identification of rural settlements dated between the 13th and 16th/17th centuries relies on systematic surface survey and the discovery of ruined feudal towers, traces of longhouses, and surface pottery concentrations. Late Ottoman houses share similar characteristics to housing types that remained more or less unchanged from the Late Medieval period,... |
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Human Geography of Boeotia |
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Hungarian raid in Eastern Sterea Hellas and Boeotia (943) |
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