CHERONEIA, a Boeotian town on the Thermodon, a small tributary of the Cephissus, near the borders of Phocis. It is celebrated in history as having been the scene of three great battles, the first (B.C. 447) in which the Athenians were defeated by the Boeotians; the second (B.C. 388) in which Philip defeated the confederate forces of the Athenians and Boeotians; and the third (B.C. 86) in which Sulla defeated the generals of Mithridates. A tumulus still visible near the site of the modern Kapurna, marks the grave of the Boeotians who fell in the second of these engagements, and in the village itself are some remains of an ancient citadel, and a theatre excavated out of the rock on which the citadel was built. Cheroneia was the birthplace of Plutarch.