After Thermopylae : the oath of Plataea and the end of the Graeco-Persian Wars / Paul Cartledge.
The Battle of Plataea in 479 BCE is one of world history's unjustly neglected events. It decisively ended the threat of a Persian conquest of Greece. It involved tens of thousands of combatants, including the largest number of Greeks ever brought together in a common cause. For the Spartans, th...
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