Decisive land battle during Persian invasion of Greece, 479 BCE.
A defeat of the Persian army by the Greeks at Plataea in 479 BC.
1Since the battle of Plataea a remarkable change was apparent in Pausanias.
2The Greeks landed on the very day on which the battle of Plataea was fought.
3Within eighty years after the battle of Plataea, mercenary troops were everywhere plying for battles and sieges.
4The sea-fight of Salamis was won by the Greeks against enormous odds; and in the battle of Platæa, B.C.
5See Encyclopedia Britannica-article on Greece (Persian Wars subtitle) for account of the Persian invasion and battle of Plataea.
6(See the account of the battle of Plataea, Herodotus, ix, 59-70.)
7Aristodemus alone remained, branded with disgrace on his return to Sparta; but subsequently redeeming his name at the battle of Plataea.
8The war was carried on with energy against Persia, and hostilities continued at intervals for thirty years after the battle of Plataea.
9Under Amyntas, who submitted to the satrap Megabyzus, Macedonia became subject to Persia, and remained so till after the battle of Plataea.
10Third in order, for the number and valour of the combatants, and third in the salvation of Hellas, I place the battle of Plataea.
11But some nations fight flying, after the manner of Aeneas in Homer; or as the heavy-armed Spartans also did at the battle of Plataea.
12Six years after the battle of Platæa the career of Xerxes was terminated by assassination, and his son, Artaxerxes Longim'anus, succeeded to the throne.
13The Greeks assembled an army of about 100,000 men and in the battle of Platæa the following year utterly defeated it.
14478, nearly two years after the battle of Plataea, and the deliverance of Thebes from Persian influence and the sway of a tyrannous oligarchy.
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