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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pavlos, post: 4353020, member: 96635&quot;]The Boeotian League was an alliance of sovereign states in Boeotia, a district in east-central Greece, about 550 BC, under the leadership of Thebes.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Boeotia_ancient-en.svg/1920px-Boeotia_ancient-en.svg.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>In 431 B.C. it was comprised of eleven groups of sovereign cities and associated townships, each of which elected one Boeotarch or minister of war and foreign affairs. He contributed 60 counselors and several judges to the federal council at Thebes, and supplied a contingent of about 1000 infantry and 100 cavalry to the federal army.</p><p>To prevent corruption in the central government, there were councils in the individual cities where all important questions of policy had to be submitted for ratification. These local councils, to which the propertied classes alone were eligible, were subdivided into four sections, which took it in turns to vote on all new measures.</p><p><br /></p><p>In 379 B.C. Thebes joined Athens in a successful effort to overturn Spartan supremacy in Greece.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/UgpZkzM.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The league was then reconstituted into a full democracy, which became prevalent throughout the land: all Boeotians, whatever their property, were members of an assembly convened at Thebes, their vote decided all matters of policy. The seven-man executive (one from each of the then seven districts, of which Thebes controlled three) was directly responsible to the Assembly.</p><p><br /></p><p>As members of the league, the individual cities adopted a common coin-type, which served to distinguish the Boeotian currency from that of all other Greek states. This type is the Boeotian shield, an oval shield with semicircular openings at either side.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/gVxTwkk.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>Boeotia, Tanagra. AR Obol. Early-mid 4th century B.C.</b></p><p><b>Obverse:</b> Boeotian shield.</p><p><b>Reverse:</b> Τ-Α Forepart of a horse to right; below, grape bunch.</p><p><b>Reference:</b> BCD Boeotia 297. SNG Copenhagen 227.</p><p>0.71g; 10mm</p><p><br /></p><p>Let me see those Boeotian Shields![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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