cadmeis

Updated: February 22, 2026

Sixty years after the capture of Ilium, the modern Boeotians were driven out of Arne by the Thessalians, and settled in the present Boeotia, the former Cadmeis; though there was a division of them there before, some of whom joined the expedition to Ilium.

Thucydides - The History of the Peloponnesian War