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Definition of Plataea
1. Noun. A former town in Boeotia; site of a battle between the Greeks and Persians in 479 BC.
2. Noun. A defeat of the Persian army by the Greeks at Plataea in 479 BC.
Generic synonyms: Pitched Battle
Geographical relationships: Boeotia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Plataea
Literary usage of Plataea
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great by John Bagnell Bury (1913)
"BATTLE OF plataea The field on which the fate of Greece was decided is bounded on
... 479 Bc The town of plataea stood in the south-west of this space, ..."
2. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1904)
"So, in the ninety-third year after plataea had entered into alliance with ...
NAVAL AND OTHER COMBATS While Archidamus was holding plataea by the throat, ..."
3. Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa by Edward Daniel Clarke (1818)
"... Gates of Thebes—Other antiquities—Medals— Remarkable Soros — Albanian Market —
Journey to Cithaeron and plataea—View of the ..."
4. Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa by Edward Daniel Clarke (1818)
"... Soros — Albanian Market — Journey to Cithaeron and plataea—View of the ...
Traditions of the Battle of plataea—Condition of the Inhabitants—Camp of ..."
5. Greece: Pictorial, Descriptive, and Historical by Christopher Wordsworth (1844)
"''f*—V' The passage from plataea into ATTICA lies over the heights of Cithaeron,
which, together with the ... The road from plataea passed by (ENOE and ..."
6. The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race by Karl Otfried Müller (1830)
"When Pausanias, with the assistance of the allies, had won the battle of plataea,
he sacrificed in the market-place of plataea to Jupiter Eleutherius, ..."
7. The Ancient World from the Earliest Times to 800 A.D. by Willis Mason West (1904)
"The victory of plataea closed the first great period of the Persian War. A second
period was to begin at once, but it had to do ..."
8. A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great by John Bagnell Bury (1913)
"BATTLE OF plataea The field on which the fate of Greece was decided is bounded on
... 479 Bc The town of plataea stood in the south-west of this space, ..."
9. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1904)
"So, in the ninety-third year after plataea had entered into alliance with ...
NAVAL AND OTHER COMBATS While Archidamus was holding plataea by the throat, ..."
10. Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa by Edward Daniel Clarke (1818)
"... Gates of Thebes—Other antiquities—Medals— Remarkable Soros — Albanian Market —
Journey to Cithaeron and plataea—View of the ..."
11. Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa by Edward Daniel Clarke (1818)
"... Soros — Albanian Market — Journey to Cithaeron and plataea—View of the ...
Traditions of the Battle of plataea—Condition of the Inhabitants—Camp of ..."
12. Greece: Pictorial, Descriptive, and Historical by Christopher Wordsworth (1844)
"''f*—V' The passage from plataea into ATTICA lies over the heights of Cithaeron,
which, together with the ... The road from plataea passed by (ENOE and ..."
13. The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race by Karl Otfried Müller (1830)
"When Pausanias, with the assistance of the allies, had won the battle of plataea,
he sacrificed in the market-place of plataea to Jupiter Eleutherius, ..."
14. The Ancient World from the Earliest Times to 800 A.D. by Willis Mason West (1904)
"The victory of plataea closed the first great period of the Persian War. A second
period was to begin at once, but it had to do ..."
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