🏺 Ancient Greece & Romemedium
Battle of Plataea
479 BCE · Greece
Quick Facts
- Year
- 479 BCE
- Location
- Greece
- Era
- 🏺 Ancient Greece & Rome
- Difficulty
- medium
The combined Greek army, led by the Spartan regent Pausanias, decisively defeated the Persian forces of Mardonius at Plataea. This was the final major land battle of the second Persian invasion of Greece. The Persian commander Mardonius was killed and his army routed, effectively ending Xerxes' ambitions to conquer Greece and securing Greek independence for generations.
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After the Greek victory at Plataea, the allied Greeks swore an oath never to rebuild the temples destroyed by the Persians, leaving them as monuments to Persian sacrilege for decades.