The numismatic chronicle and journal of the Royal Numismatic Society

PERIOD VIII. CIRC. B.C. 387374.
The condition of Boaotia after the signing of the Peace
of Antalcidas was greatly changed. Though all the cities
of that land, with the exception of Orchomenus and
Thespise, appear to have been sincerely attached to the
time-honoured form of government, of which their elected
representatives the Boaotarchs, formed the executive ;
and
although they were on the whole content with the federal
head-ship of Thebes, nevertheless there was in each of them
a Separatist minority favourable to the independent auto-
nomy of the individual communities, and this party was
now won over to the Spartan alliance.
Oligarchies under Spartan patronage, and upheld by the
presence in most of the towns of a Spartan harmost and
garrison, were now set up throughout Boaotia, while at the
same time Plataea was rebuilt as a dependency of Sparta,
nominally, like the rest, autonomous.
From the time of the signing of this peace there were
no longer any general assemblies of the BoBotians, or any
elections of the Bo3otarchs. The ancient confederacy was
broken up into its constituent parts.
At Thebes itself there was a Spartan faction headed by
Leontiades, one of the Polemarchs. This was the man
who betrayed the Theban citadel into the hands of the
Spartans under Phoebidas in B.C. 382, and drove into exile
his fellow Polemarch, Ismenius, together with Pelopidas
and many others. Sparta was now supreme, and for three