Battle of Plataea
event · 3 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
Plataea · drawn up for battle · his generalship at Plataea · that war · the battle · this fight · we had won freedom
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The Histories
The decisive engagement in which the Lacedaemonians and Tegeans, after unfavorable omens turn favorable through Pausanias's prayer, break the Persian shield-fence, kill Mardonius, and rout the Persian army.
These offered sacrifice so that they would fare better in battle with Mardonius and the army which was with him.
At Plataea, however, the Persians, routed by the Lacedaemonians, fled in disorder to their own camp and inside the wooden walls which they had made in the territory of Thebes.
Where Mardonius was himself, riding a white horse in the battle and surrounded by a thousand picked men who were the flower of the Persians, there they pressed their adversaries hardest.
Panathenaicus
The battle at Plataea where allied Greeks won freedom against the Persians with Plataean support.
It was on the soil of Plataea that the Lacedaemonians had encamped with us and with the other allies, drawn up for battle against our enemies;
and there we had won freedom, not only for the Hellenes who fought with us, but also for those who were compelled to be on the side of the Persians, and we accomplished this with the help of the Plataeans, who alone of the Boeotians fought with us in that war.
History of the Peloponnesian War
The earlier Greek victory over the Persians commanded by Pausanias, referenced as the source of his former repute.
On the receipt of this letter, Pausanias, though he was even before held in high repute by the Greeks for his generalship at Plataea, was then much more exalted;