Plataea
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- proper noun
- Greek victory at Plataea
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Watch on YouTubeSo he says, you know, think about, and he's bringing a battlefield courage marathon, Salimus Plataea, Thermopylae, right.
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Examples
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Now, here on this rugged patch of earth called Plataea... ...Xerxes' hordes face obliteration!
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At Plataea, the Persians relied on missile weaponry to gain a temporary advantage, which dissipated because of their reluctance to engage in close combat.
Academic text (1999) -
At the time when the two great cultures of Ancient Greece and Ancient Persia were seeking dominance and fighting wars at Thermopylae and Plataea, it is easy to forget that these two cultures also had a deep mutual respect and traded ideas and knowledge.
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Plataea (Greece, 479 B.C.): Allied Greek forces thwart the Achaemenid Persian invasion of the Peloponnese.
Academic text (1999) -
The Greek army achieved a decisive victory at Plataea in 479 BC, which changed the course of the war.
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Historically significant, Plataea is remembered as the site where the Greeks defeated the Persian forces.
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During the Battle of Plataea, strategic tactics were crucial for the Greek coalition's success against Persia.
Compounds
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A decisive victory by Greek city-states over the Persian army in 479 BC that ends the Persian invasion of Greece
Surface Forms
Etymology
Plataea comes from a Greek root plat- meaning 'broad' or 'wide', because the town stood on a wide plain. So the name helps you remember it as the flat field where the famous battle against the Persians took place.