-
compelled to
evacuate Scione, and the
Plataeans again found a
hospitable welcome at Athens. The
exiled Plataeans continued to live at
Athens until the...
-
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...
- in the
battle and the
Plataeans lost 11.
There are
three monuments of the
plain of Marathon, the
Athenian Tumulus, the
Plataean Tumulus, and a victory...
- alone, and not from the
allies together. The Gr****s were
enraged and the
Plataeans obtained leave to
bring a suit, on
behalf of the allies,
against the Lacedaemonians...
- the best
known example being the
Athene Areia ("Warlike Athena") of the
Plataeans. It was
common practice in
antiquity to
drape statues with clothing. "If...
- of the
Asopos river dela**** them. The
Plataeans, to
forestall any
attempt by the
second force to
capture Plataeans who
lived outside the walls,
agreed to...
- and
broke through in
pursuit inland, but on each wing the
Athenians and
Plataeans prevailed. In
victory they let the
routed foreigners flee, and brought...
- retaliate.
Though heavily outnumbered, the Athenians—supported by
their Plataean allies—defeated the
Persian hordes at the
Battle of Marathon, and the Persian...
- 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...
-
Plataea also
personified the
mountain as
their primal king: "But the
Plataeans know of no king
except Asopus and
Cithaeron before him,
holding that the...
