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 ...

Captives, whether in Plataea, Melos, or Scione, were often butchered, perhaps cumulatively in the several thousands over the course of the war. Civilians were the only targets at Mycalessus.

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.

The Greek army was able to reorganize and defeated the invaders at the Battle of Salamis in late 480 B.C. and in 481 B.C. at the Battle of Plataea. Xerxes withdrew with much of his army to Asia.

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.