Destruction of Plataea
event · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
destroyed · destroying us · lawlessly destroyed · razed our city · razing of Plataea
in the texts
Plataicus
The violent destruction and depopulation of Plataea that motivates the appeal.
Remember, too, that you used to bring bitter reproach against the Lacedaemonians because, to gratify the Thebans who were the betrayers of Greece, they destroyed us, its benefactors.
Furthermore, it is not reasonable that, while every individual who is the victim of injustice receives pity at your hands, yet an entire city so lawlessly destroyed should be unable in the slightest degree to win commiseration from you, especially when it has taken refuge with you who in former times incurred neither shame nor infamy when you showed pity for suppliants.
For who does not know that the Thebans have portioned out our land for pasturage and have razed our city to the ground?
History of the Peloponnesian War
The physical demolition of Plataea and the disposal of its population and property following the massacre of its garrison.
Afterwards they razed the whole of it to the ground, from the very foundations, and built to the sacred precinct of Juno an inn two hundred feet square, with rooms all round, above and below, making use of the roofs and doors of the Plataeans;