The Battle of Plataea Battle scene, from The Greeks documentary The defeat of the Persian navy at Salamis in 480 was by no means the end of the war, but it was the decisive battle that made ...

He was no ordinary fugitive but none other than Pausanias, who had been regent of Laconia and the victor of the famous Battle of Plataea. Let us see how he came to such a dire situation. The ...

New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. xxx, 204. Illus, maps, chron., notes, biblio., index. $24.95. ISBN: 0199747326 As the primary source of the Graeco-Persian Wars, the historian, Herodotus ...

Though defeated at Thermopylae, the Greeks went on to two victories, first at sea off the island of Salamis in 480 B.C. and then on land near the city of Plataea the following year.

Plataea was at the time a pawn in a war of the ancient Greek superpowers, Athens and Sparta, and was besieged by the Theban ...

Elsewhere in History of War magazine, you can find a blow-by-blow account of the Battle of Plataea, 479 B.C. This ancient showdown saw a Greek alliance face off against an invading army of Xerxes ...

The Battle of Plataea. The defeat of the Persian navy at Salamis in 480 was by no means the end of the war, but it was the decisive battle that made ultimate victory likely, if not inevitable.