Mount Helicon () is a mountain in the region of Thespiai in Boeotia, Greece, celebrated in Greek mythology.

The cult centers on Helicon established in the Valley of the Muses, a fertile valley near Thespiai and Ascra, under the influence of the Hesiodic texts, in Hellenistic times if not before, were visited by Pausanias in the second century CE.

Actaeon (; ), in Greek mythology, son of the priestly herdsman Aristaeus and Autonoe in Boeotia, was a famous Theban hero.

Pausanias, the second king of Sparta ( see Spartan Constitution for more information on Sparta's dual monarchy ), was supposed to provide Lysander with reinforcements as they marched into Boeotia, yet failed to arrive in time to assist Lysander, likely because Pausanias disliked him for his brash and arrogant attitude towards the Spartan royalty and government.

When war broke out afresh with Thebes the king twice invaded Boeotia ( in 378 BC and 377 BC ), although he spent the next five years largely out of action due to an unspecified but apparently grave illness.

We learn in the former poem that his father came from Cyme in Aeolis ( on the coast of Asia Minor, a little south of the island Lesbos ), and crossed the sea to settle at a hamlet, near Thespiae in Boeotia, named Ascra, " a cursed place, cruel in winter, hard in summer, never pleasant " ( Works, l. 640 ).

** A fest in Boeotia, in the month Demetrios ( Pyanepsion ), probably similar with the Thesmophoria.

** Ancient Thebes ( Boeotia ), Thebes of the Seven Gates

They were: the Arcadian ( from Arcadia ), Achaean ( from Achaea ), Elean ( from Elea ), Boeotian ( from Boeotia ), Amphictyonic ( from Amphictyonis ), Dorian ( from Doris ), Ionian ( from Ionia ), Athenian ( from Athens ), Euboean ( from Euboea ), and Nesiotic ( from the islands ).

Athamas the Minyan, a founder of Halos in Thessaly but also king of the city of Orchomenus in Boeotia ( a region of southeastern Greece ), took as his first wife the cloud goddess Nephele, by whom he had two children, the boy Phrixus and the girl Helle.

* Cephissus ( Boeotia ), a river in through northern Boeotia

He is said to have died at a great age ( c. 285 BC ), and was buried in Boeotia.

* Orchomenus ( Boeotia ), also called the Minyean Orchomenus, a city of Boeotia

* Aulis, ( modern Avlida ), an ancient Greek town in Boeotia, and traditionally the port from which the Greek army set sail for the Trojan War.

Pausanias, in his account of Boeotia ( 9. 39 ), relates many details about the cult of Trophonius.

* Copia ( Boeotia ) ( or Copae or Copiae ), an ancient Greek city in Boeotia

Such statues were found across the Greek speaking world, the preponderance of these were found at the sanctuaries of Apollo with more than one hundred from the sanctuary of Apollo Ptoios, Boeotia alone.

After the death of Amphitryon, Alcmene married Rhadamanthys, son of Zeus, and lived with him in exile at Ocaleae in Boeotia.

* The lyric poet Bacchylides quoted / paraphrased Hesiod in a victory ode addressed to Hieron of Syracuse, commemorating the tyrant's win in the chariot race at the Pythian Games 470 BC, the attribution made with these words: " A man of Boeotia, Hesiod, minister of the Muses, spoke thus: ' He whom the immortals honour is attended also by the good report of men.

There were rivers of Lethe and Mnemosyne at the oracular shrine of Trophonius in Boeotia, from which worshippers would drink before making oracular consultations with the god.

The Cretans thought that their own island had been the scene of the rape, and the Eleusinians mentioned the Nysian plain in Boeotia, and said that Persephone had descended with Hades into the lower world at the entrance of the western Oceanus.

The Athenians, under their general Tolmides, with 1000 hoplites plus other troops from their allies, march into Boeotia to take back the towns revolting against Athenian control.

Peleus makes off with his prize bride Thetis, who has vainly assumed animal forms to escape him: Boeotia n black-figure dish, ca.

Sulla, rather than facing the charge, escaped with his army and led them to fight the army of Mithridates VI of Pontus in Boeotia.

The Acarnanians later sided with Boeotia in their fight against Sparta, and with Athens against Philip II of Macedon at Chaeronea.

For the Hellenes he is a native of Boeotia, where Phoenician influences were strong ; at Tenedos he was propitiated by the sacrifice of children which seems to point to his identity with Melqart.

Before they were killed, though, Phrixus and Helle were rescued by a flying, or swimming, ram with golden wool sent by Nephele, their natural mother ; their starting point is variously recorded as Halos in Thessaly and Orchomenus in Boeotia.

Athamas, with the guilt of his son's murder upon him, was obliged to flee from Boeotia.

78, Pan is associated with a mother goddess, perhaps Rhea or Cybele ; Pindar refers to virgins worshipping Cybele and Pan near the poet's house in Boeotia.

If Aristaeus was a minor figure at Athens, he was more prominent in Boeotia, where he was " the pastoral Apollo " and was linked to the founding myth of Thebes by marriage with Autonoë, daughter of Cadmus, the founder.

The cities of Boeotia unite as a federation with an executive body composed of seven generals, or Boeotarchs, elected from seven districts throughout Boeotia.

* Learning that the Spartan garrison of Orchomenus ( in Boeotia ) is leaving for an expedition to Locris, Pelopidas sets out with the Sacred Band of Thebes and a small force of cavalry, intending to seize the city while it is unguarded.

At the peace conference, the Spartan King Agesilaus II ( with the support of Athens ) refuses to allow the Thebans to sign the treaty on behalf of all Boeotia.

The cities of Boeotia united as a federation with an executive body composed of seven generals, or Boeotarchs, elected from seven districts throughout Boeotia.

These are reminiscent of Boeotian products except that they have two animal friezes instead of the single frieze common for Boeotia.

as a commemoration of a single combat between a certain Melanthus, representing King Thymoetes of Attica, and King Xanthus of Boeotia, in which Melanthus successfully threw his adversary off his guard by crying that a man in a black goat skin ( identified with Dionysus ) was helping him.

Preparing to depart from Aulis, which was a port in Boeotia, Agamemnon's army incurred the wrath of the goddess Artemis.

Reinforced by Phocian and Orchomenian troops and a Spartan army, he met the confederate forces at Coronea in Boeotia, and in a hotly contested battle was technically victorious, but the success was a barren one and he had to retire by way of Delphi to the Peloponnese.

When Pausanias visited Thebes in Boeotia, in the second century AD, he was shown Hector's tomb and was told that the bones had been transported to Thebes according to a Delphic oracle.

This can be compared to Pausanias ' report that in the Ionaian city of Colophon in Asia Minor a sacrifice of a black female puppy was made to Hecate as " the wayside goddess ", and Plutarch's observation that in Boeotia dogs were killed in purificatory rites.

Narcissus or Narkissos (), possibly derived from ναρκη ( narke ) meaning " sleep, numbness ," in Greek mythology was a hunter from the territory of Thespiae in Boeotia who was renowned for his beauty.

Trophonius was an oracle at Lebadea of Boeotia devoted to the chthonian Zeus Trophonius.

The cow was given to Cadmus by Pelagon, King of Phocis, and it guided him to Boeotia, where he founded the city of Thebes.

Driven out of Crete by Minos, who was jealous of his popularity, he fled to Boeotia, where he wedded Alcmene.

Dionysus was said to have danced down from Parnassos accompanied by Delphic virgins, and it is known that even as young girls the women in Boeotia practiced not only the closed rites but also the bearing of the thyrsos and the dances.

The Agrionia was celebrated in several Greek cities, but especially in Boeotia.

But it introduces Chalcis which was the chief city of Boeotia and may stand for Boeotia.

Of Isemenus, Diodorus states only that he emigrated to Boeotia and settled near the Boeotian river which was afterwards called Ismenus from his name.

His birthplace is given as " the banks of the Cephissus " by Pindar or Hyria in Boeotia by the Megalai Ehoiai, but his later residence was Taenarum in Laconia.

Aristeus (" the best ") was a cult title in many places: Boeotia, Arcadia, Ceos, Sicily, Sardinia, Thessaly, and Macedonia ; consequently a set of " travels " was imposed, connecting his epiphanies in order to account for these widespread manifestations.