- its
territory from that of Thebes. Its
inhabitants were
known as the
Plataeans (Πλαταιαί; Plataiaí, Latin: Plataeae). It was the
location of the Battle...
- Yılanlı Sütun "Serpentine Column"), also
known as the
Serpentine Column,
Plataean Tripod or
Delphi Tripod, is an
ancient bronze column at the Hippodrome...
-
Battle of
Marathon in 490 BC. The
other houses the
inhumed bodies of the
Plataeans who fell
during that same battle. The
burial mound dominates the plain...
-
Messenian Wars; both he and his
company were
killed to the last man. A
Plataean general Arimnestos led his city's host in the
battles of
Marathon and Plataea...
- (Gr****: Ἀρίμνηστος; fl.
early 5th
century BCE) was the
commander of the
Plataean contingent at the
battles of
Marathon and
Plataea during the Greco-Persian...
- king
Archidamus II, laid
siege to the city. Left
unaided by Athens, the
Plataeans finally surrendered in 428 BC.
Plataea was
razed to the
ground by the...
- the
Plataeans had
fought on the
Athenian side,
against the Spartans, that
being the duly
declared policy of
their city-state. Upon the
Plataeans giving...
- retaliate.
Though heavily outnumbered, the Athenians—supported by
their Plataean allies—defeated the
Persian hordes at the
Battle of Marathon, and the Persian...
-
figure of 9,000
Athenians and 1,000
Plataeans;
while Justin suggests that
there were 10,000
Athenians and 1,000
Plataeans.
These numbers are
highly comparable...
-
historian Herodotus describes how the
Athenian general Miltiades deplo**** 900
Plataean and 10,000
Athenian hoplites in a U-formation with the
wings manned much...
