The following offers a new perspective to explain the disintegration of the Peloponnesian League and the Boeotian Federation in the early half of the fourth century B.C. Members of both these alliances had legal and conventional expectations regarding what they had to give and what they could receive from their associations. Tensions and conflicts arose within an alliance once an individual polis did not fulfill its duties and obligations. There were two factors that persuaded a member not to meet their expected responsibilities: one was the role of a polis ' factions and the other was the intervention in the association's affairs by a third party. It was primarily the failure of an alliance's members to meet each others expectations that inevitably led to the dissolution of these interstate organizations.

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La présente thèse, intitulée « Contribution à l’histoire et à l’épigraphie de la Béotie hellénistique de 335 à 167 av. J.-C. », La thèse propose une nouvelle synthèse sur certains aspects de l’épigraphie et de l’histoire de la Confédération béotienne hellénistique de 335 av. J.-C., date de la destruction de Thèbes par Alexandre le Grand, jusqu’en 171, date de la dissolution de la confédération par les Romains, et 167 av. J.-C. date de l’instauration d’un nouvel ordre oligarchique en Béotie. En dehors des ouvrages publiés par Br. Gullath en 1982 et surtout par M. Feyel en 1942, il n’existe aucune étude globale de l’histoire et de l’épigraphie de la Béotie hellénistique, alors même que plusieurs études de grande qualité sont parues depuis, notamment sous la signature de D. Knoepfler. Le réexamen des inscriptions déjà publiées et l’édition des inscriptions récemment découvertes contribuent à faire progresser notre connaissance de l’histoire et de l’épigraphie béotiennes. Le premier volume propose une nouvelle chronologie des archontes de la Confédération, qui éclaire d’un jour différent une série d’événements historiques, comme l’intégration d’Oponte au Koinon. Jointe à une étude de l’organisation politique et militaire du Koinon, elle permet de proposer une nouvelle histoire événementielle, de 335 jusqu’en 171. Le deuxième volume consiste en un choix d’inscriptions, dont 28 sont inédites et plusieurs autres n’avaient pas été réexaminées depuis le XIXe s. La thèse dans son ensemble met en évidence le perfectionnement des institutions de la Confédération béotienne, et les apports du Koinon à l’idée fédérale. / This dissertation puts forward a new synthesis of several aspects of the epigraphy and history of the Boeotian koinon from the 335 B.C. to between 171 B.C., date of the dissolution of the federation by the Romans and 167 B.C, date of the establishment of a new oligarchic regime by the Romans. Ever since M. Feyel’s major work of 1942, and to some extent the publication of B. Gullath’s 1982 piecemeal investigation into early Hellenistic Boeotia, we have not had a comprehensive treatise on the history and epigraphy of Hellenistic Boeotia, with the exception of a series of seminal studies by D. Knoepfler. The scrutiny of previously published inscriptions and the publication of new epigraphical documents in the second volume of this thesis offer novel perspectives on the study of Boeotian epigraphy and history. The first volume of the dissertation comprises a new chronology of the federal archons of Boeotia. This new chronology has important ramifications for the history of Boeotia during this period, for example for the date of the integration of the city of Opous into the Boeotian federation. The first volume also includes a new study of the political and military organisation of the Boeotian koinon and cities during the Hellenistic period, on the basis of new epigraphical material and the publication of numerous related studies. In effect, the whole results in a new history of Hellenistic Boeotia. In the second volume of this thesis one finds a selection of published and unpublished inscriptions from several Boeotian cities. More specifically, volume II includes 28 unpublished epigraphical texts as well as a fresh examination of inscriptions that in many cases have not been thoroughly studied since the 19th century. In sum, these two volumes offer a major new synthesis on the Hellenistic Boeotian koinon, one of the most developed and democratic federal organization of ancient Greece.

The history of central Greece in the fourth century BC has long been viewed through the lens of Athenian and Spartan interests which distorts the historical narrative and often misleads the reader regarding the causes and effects of events in this region. The following examination rejects this view and instead uses a regional approach to achieve new and unique understandings of major events in central Greece during the first half of the fourth century BC. The main focus of the examination is the internal developments of the Boeotian League and its interaction with the other states of central Greece. This refers to the relationship between Thebes and the other cities of Boeotia within the federal state as well as between the Boeotian League and Locris, Phocis, and Thessaly. These relationships, when assessed from a regional perspective using both literary and archaeological evidence, craft a new narrative for the political and military history of central Greece, a narrative which can be defined as ‘Boeotian.' In doing so, many long-standing ideas regarding this period will be challenged including ideological shifts within the government of Boeotia, motivations for the beginning of the Corinthian War, the historical importance of Pelopidas and Epaminondas, and the mechanisms of Boeotian supremacy in central Greece.

This study identifies and describes constituents, patterns and distribution of the system –or systems- of demonstratives of a representative selection of early Greek dialects, namely the “Arcado-Cyprian” group: Arcadian and Cyprian, including a short analysis of Pamphylian as well as a discussion of the particle νι/νυ and a brief note on Mycenaean; the “Aeolic” group: Lesbian, Boeotian and Thessalian; and a selection of West Greek dialects, including both “Doric” and “Northwest Greek” dialects: Elean, Cretan, Laconian, Cyrenaean and Theran. It also examines, describes and compares the syntactic functions and, where possible, pragmatic uses of the series of demonstratives in operation in the selected dialects, providing a classification capable of accounting for all uses cross-dialectically, as well as a succinct account of the evolution of the system of demonstratives from Indo-European to “Ancient Greek”. Additionally, it offers a glimpse of the way in which deixis and anaphora seem to have worked in early Greek dialectal inscriptions, addressing the issue of defining demonstrative pronouns, as well as deixis and anaphora in general terms. Finally, this thesis provides the basis for a cross-dialectal comparison of the structure and operation of the different systems of demonstratives, and corrects some general misconceptions about the scope, usage and inter-dialectal connections of some series of demonstratives, particularly with regard to Arcadian and Cyprian. The results of such a study might contribute towards the discussion of the classification and history of the evolution of early Greek dialects.