Now, here on this ragged patch of earth called Plataea, Xerxes's hordes face obliteration!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz] Reference

Plataea, they marched away without doing any harm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories from Thucydides] Reference

Attica from Boeotia, lies the little town of Plataea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories from Thucydides] Reference

Plataea, who, when they came upon the light shields of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Laches, or Courage] Reference

In military exploits, Daimachus of Plataea will not even allow.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans] Reference

Polysperchon, and out of respect for him, Solon of Plataea, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans] Reference

‘Sir,’ said Parmenion, ‘what was the lesson of Plataea?’.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lion Of Macedon]

In the same summer which witnessed the investment of Plataea, the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories from Thucydides] Reference

Lesbos, Plataea, the Messenians of Naupactus, the greater part of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Peloponnesian War] Reference

The surprise of Plataea was the first open violation of the Thirty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories from Thucydides] Reference

Why did the King slain at Thermopylae appear on the monument to Plataea?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lion Of Macedon]

It is said that the battle was fought on the same day as that of Plataea and that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Authors of Greece] Reference

At this point Sparta decided to destroy Plataea, the Athenian outpost in Boeotia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Authors of Greece] Reference

Aeneas in Homer; or as the heavy-armed Spartans also did at the battle of Plataea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Laches, or Courage] Reference

Belgium will be remembered with Plataea centuries after the military tyranny of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference

Gulf of Plataea, it is said that the Greeks landed who founded the colony of Cyrene.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860] Reference

Athenians spoke fairly and were giving them the best advice, and so they sent aid to Plataea.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Orations of Lysias] Reference

‘I visited friends in Corinth, then bought a horse and rode here through Megara and Plataea.’.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lion Of Macedon]

Parmenion, at 29, was in his prime and had won races in Corinth, Megara, Plataea and even Athens.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lion Of Macedon]

Nearly 2,400 years ago the Boeotian city of Plataea was one among the many lesser Greek republics.    From Wordnik.com.  [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference

Mardonius soon evacuated Attica, the ground being too stony for cavalry, and encamped near Plataea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Authors of Greece] Reference

On the way they were joined by a thousand more, the whole army of the brave little town of Plataea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introductory American History] Reference

‘Thebes can veto any decision, and directly controls the votes of Thespiae, Plataea and Tanagra.’.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lion Of Macedon]

Demetrius, the Phalerian, says he held the office a little before he died, after the battle of Plataea.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans] Reference

To this day the name of Plataea is held in honor throughout the world; for many years that honor was unique.    From Wordnik.com.  [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference

The success at Plataea showed how superior to the Persians were the Greeks in equipment, leadership, and fighting power.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early European History] Reference

Boeotians, on the twenty-seventh of Panemus; — on which day there is still a convention of the Greeks at Plataea, and the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans] Reference

Thebans appeared before the gates of Plataea, which were opened to them by a party of the citizens who favoured their design.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories from Thucydides] Reference

The Peloponnesians had built a double line of wall round Plataea, the two lines being separated by a distance of sixteen feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories from Thucydides] Reference

A strong Spartan army, supported by the Athenians and their allies, met the Persians near the little town of Plataea in Boeotia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early European History] Reference

Themistocles, and at Plataea, Herodotus tells us, Pausanias got the glory of that noble victory: and men like Sophanes, and Aminias.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans] Reference

Bachylides of Megara and Pelopidas had supported him, but it was not until they convinced Ganeus of Plataea that they won a majority.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lion Of Macedon]

Boedromion, the Persians were worsted by the Greeks at Marathon; on the third, at Plataea, as also at Mycale; on the twenty-fifth, at.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans] Reference

The war was carried on with energy against Persia, and hostilities continued at intervals for thirty years after the battle of Plataea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories from Thucydides] Reference

But the war was affecting her investments, the Spartans having confiscated the last shipment of opium as the carts passed through Plataea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lion Of Macedon]

In the third year of the war the usual invasion of Attica was omitted, and the Peloponnesian army under Archidamus marched against Plataea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories from Thucydides] Reference