Pelopidas was the most renowned politician and general of Thebes and the Boiotian League in antiquity after Epaminondas. Born between c. 410 and 405 BCE, Pelopidas hailed from an aristocratic Theban family. His life and death were interwoven with the ascendancy of his home town at the time of the so-called Theban Hegemony (370s and 360s BCE).

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Lyric poet (518 – c. 438 BCE), many of whose works survive and span a large numbers of genres. His work thus represents the long transition between two major periods in Greek history, the Archaic and Classical periods, and also spans a number of landmark events and processes in Greece as a whole: the Persian Wars and the rise of the Athenian Empire. Most of his extant poems are categorized as epinikia, poems commissioned to celebrate victors at the four major panhellenic festivals: the Olympic,...

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The modern town of Plataea, in the southwest of Boeotia, developed near the ancient settlement; this preserved the ancient remains and later allowed the carrying out of excavations in this important archaeological site. Following the administrative reform Callicrates in 2010, the municipal unit of Thebes now includes the communities Kapareli (this was the seat of the former municipality), Leuctra, Melissochori (located close to the springs of River Asopus) Loutoufi.

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Ancient settlement located in SW-Boeotia, inhabited since the Middle Neolithic Age. Known for its long standing conflict with Thebes and for the battle of 479 B.C. Destroyed in the Peloponnesian War. Re-built after 338 B.C. with extensive fortification. Inhabited until Late antiquity and Byzantine times. Cults of Hera, Demeter, Athena, Zeus, Dionysos, Nymphs and Androkrates.

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A philosopher and biographer of the end of the first century AD and the beginning of the second century AD (c. 50? CE-after 120 CE). A biography of Plutarch and a chronology of his corpus are based on a small number of inscriptions that connect him with Chaeronea and Delphi, and on internal evidence in his own works.

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In early ceramics we find tableware in 10th century white fabric, from Constantinople, as well as an amphora from Otranto. From the late 11th and late 13th century we mainly see glazed wares with decorative techniques common in Byzantine workshops. In local production there are several pots for everyday use. In the Frankish period many ceramic objects were imported from the West, while in the early Ottoman period, they were imported mainly from the East.

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