Plataeans
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in the texts
History of the Peloponnesian War
Citizens of the Boeotian town allied to Athens who defeat the Theban attempt to seize their city by night and subsequently execute their Theban captives.
for it was not the wish of the great body of the Plataeans to revolt from the Athenians.
but the Plataeans, after getting in as quickly as possible whatever they had in the country, immediately put the men to death.
The Thebans, on finding themselves outwitted, proceeded to close their ranks, and repel their attacks, wherever they might fall upon them.
The Histories
People of Plataea who placed themselves under Athenian protection after Theban pressure and fought alongside Athens at Marathon.
The Plataeans were marshalled last, holding the left wing.
The Athenians prevailed, then followed the fleeing Persians and struck them down.
The Boeotians attacked the Athenians as they were leaving but were defeated in battle.
Hellenica
Allied force summoned from Plataea to aid the Lacedaemonian governor in Thebes.
And the Theban horsemen, upon perceiving that the Plataeans were approaching, went out to meet them and killed more than twenty of them;
For I see that you do not think one way and we another, but that you as well as we are distressed over the destruction of Plataea and Thespiae.
Meanwhile the Athenians, seeing that the Plataeans, who were their friends, had been expelled from Boeotia and had fled to them for refuge, and that the Thespians were beseeching them not to allow them to be left without a city, no longer commended the Thebans, but, on the contrary, while they were partly ashamed to make war upon them and partly reckoned it to be inexpedient, they nevertheless ref …
Theomnestus and Apollodorus Against Neaera
The people of Plataea, Athens's sole loyal ally among the Boeotians during the Persian Wars, whose city was ultimately destroyed by Sparta and Thebes and who were granted Athenian citizenship by decree as an extraordinary reward for their sacrifices.
The Decree Regarding the Plataeans
) Take this decree, please, and read it to the jury.
This act more than any other drew upon the Plataeans the hatred of the Lacedaemonians and their royal house.
Panathenaicus
The people of Plataea, allies in the Persian war, later destroyed by Sparta and protected by Athens.
Furthermore, it would be strange if, having spoken of these wrongs, I failed to mention their treatment of the Plataeans.
And yet, after no great interval of time, the Lacedaemonians, to gratify Thebes, reduced the Plataeans by siege and put them all to the sword with the exception of those who had been able to escape through their lines.
for, while the Lacedaemonians did not scruple to commit such wrongs both against the benefactors of Hellas and against their own kinsmen, our ancestors, on the other hand, gave the surviving Messenians a home in Naupactus and adopted the Plataeans who had escaped with their lives as Athenian citizens and shared with them all the privileges which they themselves enjoyed.
Plataicus
The displaced people of Plataea who petition Athens for restoration of their land and city after Theban aggression.
Nevertheless, we must try to the best of our ability to make their transgressions known.
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.
But our greatest anguish of all is when one sees separated from each other, not only citizens from citizens, but also wives from husbands, daughters from mothers, and every tie of kinship severed;