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Significados de plataea en inglés

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

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Uso de plataea en inglés
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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
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He is Alcman, the foster-brother of Pausanias, whom he attended at Plataea.
Pausanias, the Spartan; The Haunted and the Haunters / An Unfini...
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There was a battle at Plataea; and there was a battle at Agincourt.
Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2
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At this point Sparta decided to destroy Plataea, the Athenian outpost in Boeotia.
Authors of Greece
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On their refusal, Platæa was besieged by the allied forces of the Peloponnesians.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 11 — Ancient and Mediæval Hi...
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Pretty pickings at Plataea; and we have known losses, my child, sad losses.
Pausanias, the Spartan; The Haunted and the Haunters / An Unfini...
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After several days' manoeuvring a general battle took place near Plataea.
A Smaller History of Greece: from the Earliest Times to the Roma...
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Subsequently we find him celebrating the heroes of Thermopylae, Artemisium, Salamis, and Plataea.
A Smaller History of Greece: from the Earliest Times to the Roma...
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Such were the arrangements made for the blockade of Plataea.
The History of the Peloponnesian War
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No other than the Conqueror of Plataea has a chance of maintaining that authority.
Pausanias, the Spartan; The Haunted and the Haunters / An Unfini...
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One of the decisive battles of history, like Platæa, or the Metaurus or Gettysburg.
The Forest of Swords: A Story of Paris and the Marne
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Thus Plataea nominally became a second Elis-its battle-fieldanother Altis.
Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Book III
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At Marathon, Salamis, and Plataea the fate of our western civilization trembled in the balance.
The History of Education / Educational Practice and Progress Con...
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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...
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Hostilities were precipitated by a treacherous attack of the Thebans upon Platæa in 431 B.C.
Mosaics of Grecian History
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