World-changing479 BCE
Battle of Plataea
Plataea, Boeotia, Greece
Estimated casualties
1.4K – 257Kestimated dead
Herodotus claims only ~159 Greek and over 250,000 Persian dead; the Persian figure is a gross exaggeration. Modern scholars regard Greek losses as low (perhaps 1,000+) and Persian as heavy but unquantifiable.
SOURCEHerodotus (ancient) summarized on Wikipedia
The decisive land battle of the second Persian invasion of Greece, in which a Greek coalition under the Spartan Pausanias destroyed the Persian army of Mardonius in Boeotia. Coupled with the naval victory at Mycale, it ended the Persian threat to mainland Greece.
Belligerents2
- Greek coalition (Sparta, Athens and allies)
- Achaemenid Persian Empire
ON THE MAPAchaemenid Persian Empire
Conflict graph
PART OFGreco-Persian Wars
Sources
- Wikipedia: Battle of Plataea
- Britannica: Battle of Plataea
- Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0
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