Plataea

American  

[pluh-tee-uh] / pləˈti ə /

noun

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

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Plataea British  

/ 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

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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.

From Nature

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.

From Project Gutenberg

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

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The Athenian empire had never included the greater part of Greece proper; since the Thirty Years’ Peace its possessions on the mainland, outside the boundaries of Attica, were limited to Naupactus and Plataea.

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg