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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

At the Battle of Marathon, Athens' underdog victory stunned Persia. ... culminating in the battles of Salamis in 480 B.C. and Plataea in 479, which finally ended the Persian threat.

In a naval battle fought in around 184 B.C. between Hannibal and the Hellenistic king Eumenes II of Pergamum, Hannibal stuffed poisonous snakes into amphorae that he catapulted onto the enemy ships.

September 12th is the traditional date for the Battle of Marathon in 490 BCE, an epic struggle between the Greeks and the Persians. ... In the meantime, troops from Plataea arrive to help.

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.