Pindar himself, the Theban poet par excellence, refers to the slur “Boeotian swine”; Hesiod, another Boeotian poet (and a founder of Greek literature), describes his hometown of Ascra as being ...

Professor Larson co-directs the Thebes Synergasia Excavation Project with Professor Kevin Daly, also an Associate Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies at Bucknell University.