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Meanings of battle of plataea in English

Russian
сражение при платеях
Portuguese
batalha de plateias
Spanish
batalla de platea
Catalan
batalla de platees
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Decisive land battle during Persian invasion of Greece, 479 BCE.

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сражение при платеях
Spanish
platea

A defeat of the Persian army by the Greeks at Plataea in 479 BC.

platea
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Examples for "Plataea"
Examples for "Plataea"
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Since the battle of Plataea a remarkable change was apparent in Pausanias.
Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Book IV
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The Athenians despatched messengers to Sparta, as did also Megara and Plataea.
Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Book III
3
He is Alcman, the foster-brother of Pausanias, whom he attended at Plataea.
Pausanias, the Spartan; The Haunted and the Haunters / An Unfini...
4
There was a battle at Plataea; and there was a battle at Agincourt.
Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2
5
At this point Sparta decided to destroy Plataea, the Athenian outpost in Boeotia.
Authors of Greece
Usage of battle of plataea in English
1
Since the battle of Plataea a remarkable change was apparent in Pausanias.
Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Book IV
2
The Greeks landed on the very day on which the battle of Plataea was fought.
A Smaller History of Greece: from the Earliest Times to the Roma...
3
Within eighty years after the battle of Plataea, mercenary troops were everywhere plying for battles and sieges.
Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2
4
The sea-fight of Salamis was won by the Greeks against enormous odds; and in the battle of Platæa, B.C.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01
5
See Encyclopedia Britannica-article on Greece (Persian Wars subtitle) for account of the Persian invasion and battle of Plataea.
Selections from American poetry, with special reference to Poe, ...
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(See the account of the battle of Plataea, Herodotus, ix, 59-70.)
Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies
7
Aristodemus alone remained, branded with disgrace on his return to Sparta; but subsequently redeeming his name at the battle of Plataea.
Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Book III
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The war was carried on with energy against Persia, and hostilities continued at intervals for thirty years after the battle of Plataea.
Stories from Thucydides
9
Under Amyntas, who submitted to the satrap Megabyzus, Macedonia became subject to Persia, and remained so till after the battle of Plataea.
A Smaller History of Greece: from the Earliest Times to the Roma...
10
Third in order, for the number and valour of the combatants, and third in the salvation of Hellas, I place the battle of Plataea.
Menexenus
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But some nations fight flying, after the manner of Aeneas in Homer; or as the heavy-armed Spartans also did at the battle of Plataea.
Laches
12
Six years after the battle of Platæa the career of Xerxes was terminated by assassination, and his son, Artaxerxes Longim'anus, succeeded to the throne.
Mosaics of Grecian History
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The Greeks assembled an army of about 100,000 men and in the battle of Platæa the following year utterly defeated it.
A History of Sea Power
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478, nearly two years after the battle of Plataea, and the deliverance of Thebes from Persian influence and the sway of a tyrannous oligarchy.
The Extant Odes of Pindar / Translated with Introduction and Sho...