- Its
inhabitants were
known as the
Plataeans (Πλαταιαί; Plataiaí, Latin:
Plataeae). It was the
location of the
Battle of
Plataea in 479 BC, in
which an alliance...
- The
Battle of
Plataea was the
final land
battle during the
second Persian invasion of Greece. It took
place in 479 BC near the city of
Plataea in Boeotia...
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Daimachus (/diˈɪməkəs/;
Ancient Gr****: Δηΐμαχος or Δαΐμαχος) was a Gr**** from
Plataeae, who
lived during the third-century BCE. He
became an amb****ador to the...
- the
battles of Artemisium, Salamis, and
Plataeae. They sent two
ships to the
naval engagements, and at
Plataeae they and the
Eretrians amounted together...
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Italy Policastro Bussentino Pixunte Plataea Boeotia,
Greece destro****
Plataeae Poseidonia Campania,
Italy Paestum Paestum Potidaea Chalcidice, Greece...
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himself at the head of four
hundred Thebans and
seized the
citadel of
Plataeae, but was
slain by the Plataeans." Herodotus, The Histories, 7.131-132:...
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fertile plain, at the
distance of 130
stadia from
Oropus and 200 from
Plataeae.
Several ancient writers identified Tanagra with the
Homeric Graea; but...
- and
Thessaly (after 809) Athens, Larissa, Pharsala, Lamia, Thermopylae,
Plataeae, Euripus, Demetrias,
Stagoi Koloneia§ (thema Kolōneias, Θέμα Κολωνείας)...
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Athenian Boeotians, an
epithet which he also
applies to the
inhabitants of
Plataeae.
Strabo also
describes Oropus as a
Boeotian town; but Livy, Pausanias,...
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Aegina mentioned to bore
Aeacus to the said god.
Plataea had a
sanctuary at
Plataeae,
which according to some
derived its name from her, but
according to others...
