place
Boeotia
also: Boeotian
The region of central Greece where Cadmus founded Thebes; named, in Ovid's aetiology, for the heifer (Greek *bous*) that led him.
Reading notes
- Metamorphoses §3.38 call them Boeotian
The region of central Greece around Thebes; Ovid derives its name from the heifer (Greek *bous*, 'ox') that guided Cadmus.
- Metamorphoses §12.351 Boeotian land
The central Greek region whose coast at Aulis held the becalmed fleet.