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.

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 ...

One reason is that very few reliable accounts of the battle exist, partly because Athenian chroniclers very likely de-emphasized the leading role played in the victory by their rivals, the Spartans.

That battle that they're about to fight is the Battle of Plataea. My guess is that everyone only thought about the idea of a direct sequel to 300 , which would be like making a sequel to Titanic ...

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 ...