A defeat of the Persian army by the Greeks in 479 BC

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The Greeks who boast of Marathon and Salamis and Plataea as marvelous victories do not realize that none of these engagements was of the slightest significance to Persia.

Thebes, Corinth, Orchomenus, Plataea - all changed sides time and again and Victory flew between the warring factions, always the harlot, moving on, sweet with a promise she would not keep.

The Athenian mercenaries had been beaten back from Erythrae, and Cleombrotus marched through Aegosthena and Plataea, his army now almost in sight of Thebes.

Pelopidas and the Sacred Band had been instrumental in helping the rebels of Tanagra and Plataea to expel the Spartan garrisons, and there was even talk of the Great King of Persia granting the Theban request for autonomy from Sparta.

Parmenion, at 29, was in his prime and had won races in Corinth, Megara, Plataea and even Athens.

Bachylides of Megara and Pelopidas had supported him, but it was not until they convinced Ganeus of Plataea that they won a majority.

Democritus tells me that Miltiades was not at Plataea, but at Marathon.

The other Greek cities followed her example with the exception of tiny Plataea which sent a thousand men.

By a strange coincidence, the same day that the Greek armies won their victory near Plataea, the Athenian ships destroyed the enemy's fleet near Cape Mycale in Asia Minor.

Why did the King slain at Thermopylae appear on the monument to Plataea?