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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 43. Chapters: Ancient Boeotians, Ancient tribes in Boeotia, Boeotian mythology, Culture of ancient Boeotia, Geography of ancient Boeotia, Mycenaean archaeological sites in Boeotia, Thebes, Greece, Plutarch, Luke the Evangelist, Aoide, Athamas, Amphiaraus, Melicertes, Melete, Mneme, Ascalaphus, Phrixus, Spartoi, Aulis, Trophonius, Minyas, Ogyges, Arne, Hyrieus, Minyans, Battle of Plataea, Leleges, Orchomenus, Iphigenia in Aulis, Phryne, Mount Helicon, Gla, Oropos, Alalcomenae, Hyria, Graea, Battle of Tanagra, Leuctra, Alalcomenia, Aeolians, Brachyllas, Alalcomenes, Aonia, Boeotus, Bakis, Poemander, Graiki, Eleuther, Eteocles, Antigenidas, Calamis, Delium, Proxenus of Boeotia, Itonus, Boeotian helmet, Bacchius of Tanagra, Boeotarch, Pelagon, Ectenes, Lamprias, Delos Mountain, Gryton, Oxythemis of Coroneia, Eurybotadas, Boeotian muses, Chaeresilaus, Perses, Philotas of Thebes, Chersios of Orchomenus. Excerpt: The Battle of Plataea (Greek: , Mach t n Platai n) was the final land battle during the second Persian invasion of Greece. It took place in 479 BC near the city of Plataea in Boeotia, and was fought between an alliance of the Greek city-states, including Sparta, Athens, Corinth and Megara, and the Persian Empire of Xerxes I. The previous year, the Persian invasion force, led by the Persian king in person, had scored victories at the Battles of Thermopylae and Artemisium, and conquered Thessaly, Boeotia and Attica. However, at the ensuing Battle of Salamis, the Allied Greek navy had won an unlikely victory, and therefore prevented the conquest of the Peloponnesus. Xerxes then retreated with much of his army, leaving his general Mardonius to finish off the Greeks the following year. In the summer of 479 BC, the Greeks assembled a huge army (by contemporary standards), and marched out of the Peloponnesus. The Persians retreated t...
