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SUMMARY
Information about religion in Boeotia comes amply from literary sources, such as Pindar, Hesiod, Plutarch and Pausanias, who has described many Boeotian sanctuaries. Archaeological evidence is, however, less explicit. Two major oracles, that of Amphiaraos at Oropos and that of Trophonios at Levadeia had a widespread fame. Other important cults were those of Athena Itonia, of Apollo Ptoios, of Poseidon at Onchestos, of the Muses at the homonymous valley, of Charites at Orchomenos etc. For Eastern Phocis Pausanias mentions twelve sanctuaries, for most of which there are few if any remains extant. |
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