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Meanings of Plataea in inglês

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

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Usage of Plataea in inglês
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Since the battle of Plataea a remarkable change was apparent in Pausanias.
Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Book IV
2
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
6
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...
9
Such were the arrangements made for the blockade of Plataea.
The History of the Peloponnesian War
10
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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Thus Plataea nominally became a second Elis-its battle-fieldanother Altis.
Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Book III
12
At Marathon, Salamis, and Plataea the fate of our western civilization trembled in the balance.
The History of Education / Educational Practice and Progress Con...
13
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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Thus was Plataea blotted out from the map of Greece (B.C.
A Smaller History of Greece: from the Earliest Times to the Roma...
15
Such was the end of the victor of Plataea.
A Smaller History of Greece: from the Earliest Times to the Roma...
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Third Year of the War-Investment of Plataea-NavalVictories of Phormio-Thracian Irruption into Macedonia under Sitalces
The History of the Peloponnesian War
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