Plataea

[pluh-tee-uh]

noun

1. an ancient city in Greece, in Boeotia: Greeks defeated Persians here 479 b.c.

Plataea

/ pləˈtiːə /

noun

1. an ancient city in S Boeotia, traditionally an ally of Athens: scene of the defeat of a great Persian army by the Greeks in 479 _bc

Example Sentences

We learn how, in fifth-century bc Greece, Persian troops crumbled when a coalition of Athenians and Spartans forced them into marshlands before the Battle of Plataea.

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In the Daedala, as the festival was called at Plataea, an effigy was made from an oak-tree, dressed in bridal attire, and carried in a cart with a woman who acted as bridesmaid.

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Pausanias, the victor of Plataea, soon showed himself destitute of the high qualities which the situation demanded.

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The great battles, Marathon, Thermopylae, Salamis and Plataea, present a series of problems.

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A very quaint story of the domestic troubles of Zeus was current in Plataea, where it was related at the festival named D�dala.

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