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	Plataea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The plot was uncovered and the Plataeans captured the infiltrators before the main body of the Theban force could arrive.
		The Plataeans immediately sent to Athens for assistance in the siege that was certain to come, and Athens brought them provisions and soldiers, even though they disagreed with the Plataean's decision to execute the Theban prisoners.
		Yet, when the Plataean prisoners were brought before the judges, no trial was held; no chance for apology was offered.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Plataea (672 words)

	CLAS 175: Scott Rusch on Plataea, 2/22/96 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		However, the Plataeans forestalled any such act by sending out a herald to berate the Thebans for their act of impiety in attacking a city in time of peace, and to threaten to execute their prisoners if the Plataean countryfolk were molested.
		In addition, the Plataeans may have rendered their city more than usually impervious to such methods by walling shut their gates (480 men are not going to go out against 30,000) and building their walls in the assailable portion too high for ladders to be practical--over 30 feet high, according to later authors.
		But the Plataeans in the town raised many beacon fires from their walls at the same time, having prepared for this action beforehand, in order that their enemy's beacon signals might be rendered unintelligible and the Thebans, mistaking the situation, might defer bringing aid until the escapees had gotten away.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /rrice/175sr222.html (8172 words)

	Marathon - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The plain derives its fame mainly from the battle in which the Athenians and Plataeans defeated the Persians (490 B.Ct).
		The Athenians, on the recommendation of their strategus Miltiades, resolved to meet this force in the open field, and sent out their full levy of g000 heavy infantry under the polemarch Callimachus.
		They were joined on the way by 1000 Plataeans, but were disappointed of the assistance which they expected from Sparta.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Marathon (681 words)

	The Internet Classics Archive \| The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
		The gates were opened to them by a Plataean called Naucleides, who, with his party, had invited them in, meaning to put to death the citizens of the opposite party, bring over the city to Thebes, and thus obtain power for themselves.
		While such was the fate of the party in Plataea, the rest of the Thebans who were to have joined them with all their forces before daybreak, in case of anything miscarrying with the body that had entered, received the news of the affair on the road, and pressed forward to their succour.
		But the Plataeans suspected their intention almost before it was formed, and becoming alarmed for their fellow citizens outside the town, sent a herald to the Thebans, reproaching them for their unscrupulous attempt to seize their city in time of peace, and warning them against any outrage on those outside.
	classics.mit.edu /Thucydides/pelopwar.2.second.html (10241 words)

	Burial Mound of the Plataeans, Marathon
		3km/2mi north of the Athenian burial mound at Marathón, the "Plataean Road" (Leofóros Plateion) turns west off the road to the village of Marathón and in 2.5km/1.5mi reaches the little hamlet of Vranás.
		To the left (signposted), surrounded by trees, is the burial mound (excavated 1970) of the Plataeans who fell in the battle.
		In the interior, which is electrically lighted, can be seen the tomb of an officer named Archias (on right) and that of a 14 year-old boy, whose remains are partly covered by a large pottery vessel.
	planetware.com /.../burial-mound-of-the-plataeans-gr-cen-platae.htm (156 words)

	Thucydides - History of the Peloponnesian War 10
		The Plataeans were now in the last state of weakness, and the herald had no sooner delivered his message than they surrendered the town.
		The Plataeans not choosing to recognize our supremacy, as had been first arranged, but separating themselves from the rest of the Boeotians, and proving traitors to their nationality, we used compulsion; upon which they went over to the Athenians, and with them did as much harm, for which we retaliated.
		The adverse attitude of the Lacedaemonians in the whole Plataean affair was mainly adopted to please the Thebans, who were thought to be useful in the war at that moment raging.
	mlahanas.de /Greeks/History/Thucydides/HistoryPeloponnesianWar10.html (4570 words)

	Herodotus: Marathon
		The Plataeans suffered grievous things at the hands of the men of Thebes; so, as it chanced that Cleomenes, the son of Anaxandridas, and the Lacedaemonians were in their neighbourhood, they first of all offered to surrender themselves to them.
		The Plataeans, however, when the Lacedaemonians gave them this counsel, complied at once, and when the sacrifice to the Twelve Gods was being offered at Athens, they came and sat as suppliants about the altar and gave themselves up to the Athenians.
		Now, as they marshalled the host upon the field of Marathon, in order that the Athenian front might he of equal length with the Median, the ranks of the centre were diminished, and it became the weakest part of the line, while the wings were both made strong with a depth of many ranks.
	www.thenagain.info /Classes/Sources/Herodotus-Marathon.html (1862 words)

	The siege of Plataea
		But the Plataeans, observing the progress of the mound, constructed a wall of wood and fixed it upon that part of the city wall against which the mound was being erected, and built up bricks inside it which they took from the neighboring houses.
		But the Plataeans, fearing that even thus they might not be able to hold out against the superior numbers of the enemy, had yet another invention.
		The Plataeans had before sent off their wives and children and oldest men and the mass of the non-combatants to Athens; so that the number of the besieged left in the place comprised 400 of their own citizens, 80 Athenians, and 110 women to bake their bread.
	www.livius.org /pb-pem/peloponnesian_war/war_t10.html (955 words)

	The Battle of Marathon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The casualties of the Hellenes amounted to 192 Athenians and unrecorded number of Plataeans and slaves, as it is implied by the fact that the Athenians to honor their dead buried them in three tombs (mounts).
		In one of the tombs were buried the Athenian citizens, in the second the Plataeans and in the third the slaves.
		It is believed that the tomb of the Plataeans is found at the foot of Penteli mountain.
	www.mcm.aueb.gr /ment/spetses/Lymperopoulos/pw_cont19.htm (156 words)

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		About half of the Plataeans and Athenians within the city escaped over the walls in 428 \fs20 (3.20-24) \fs24, leaving about 200 men who eventually surrendered themselves for trial rather than starve:\ \pard\tx720\tx1440\tx2160\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\ql\qnatural \cf0 \ \pard\tx720\tx1440\tx2160\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\li700\fi40\ql\qnatural \cf0 An assault had been made on the walls, which the Plataeans were unable to repel.
		The Plataeans conveniently ignore the killing of the raiding party and speak of their status as prisoners:\ \pard\tx720\tx1440\tx2160\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\li360\ql\qnatural \cf0 \ \pard\tx720\tx1440\tx2160\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\li720\ql\qnatural \cf0...consider that we are prisoners who surrendered of our own accord, stretching out our hands for quarter, whose slaughter Hellenic law forbids...
		When the Plataeans admit that they chose to "act well with Athens sooner than wisely with Sparta", they almost certainly mean to equate "well" and "wisely" with "justice" and "interest", but the question of which should be assigned to which is far from trivial.
	www.reed.edu /~blackc/hum/justice-11-10-04.rtf (1245 words)

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		The Plataeans, being wakened out of their first sleep, and thinking that the Thebans were in much greater force than was really the case, at first attempted no resistance, but were disposed to accept the terms offered them.
		The Plataeans, perceiving their intention, sent a herald to remonstrate, threatening that unless they desisted, all the Theban prisoners should at once be put to death.
		While the Plataeans were thus vigorously defending themselves, and before the mound was completed, the Peloponnesians brought siege- engines to bear on the wall, one of which greatly alarmed the besieged garrison, by severely shaking their wall of timber and bricks.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/etext05/7sthu10.txt (21971 words)

	Steinbock: Forgetting the Plataeans
		However, considering the universal characteristics of social memory, it is not surprising that the Plataean contribution at Marathon was suppressed.
		Yet, the Plataeans' participation was not necessarily entirely forgotten, it was rather suppressed as the occasion required it.
		However, merely mentioning their participation did not seem sufficient to Apollodorus; by referring to the painting in the Stoa Poikile, he provided a suitable cue for the memory of the Plataeans' role at Marathon and reminded his audience of a relatively unfamiliar aspect of the Plataean merits during the Persian Wars.
	www.camws.org /meeting/2005/abstracts2005/steinbock.html (471 words)

	cciv243.Neara.one.html
		The Plataeans, men of Athens, alone among the Greeks came to your aid at Marathon when Datis, the general of King Dareius, on his return from Eretria after subjugating Euboea, landed on our coast with a large force and proceeded to ravage the country.
		The Plataeans, discovering that the Thebans had got within the gates in the night and that their city had been suddenly seized in time of peace, ran to bear aid and arrayed themselves for battle.
		And the Plataeans shall be distributed among the demes and the tribes, and after they have been so distributed, it shall no longer be lawful for any Plataean to become an Athenian, unless he wins the gift from the people of Athens.
	mkatz.web.wesleyan.edu /Images2/cciv243.Neaera.three.html (2366 words)

	materials6.2 - Materials
		Plataean ambassadors plead with the Spartan leader Archidamus to be left alone: they cite a promise given to them by Sparta at the end of the Persian Wars (whose final land battle was fought there--see Herodotus, Bk.
		The Athenians promise aid, so the Plataeans resist; Archidamus calls the gods to witness that he is acting justly in attacking them.
		When the Plataeans admit they have done the Spartans no good service, the men are all killed and the women enslaved.
	bellarmine.lmu.edu /classics/cl230/materialswk6-2.htm (1858 words)

	The outbreak of the Archidamian War
		It was a complete violation of the code of honor that had once ruled Greek warfare, but, as Thucydides pointed out in a different context, "The ancient simplicity was laughed down and disappeared" (History of the Peloponnesian War 3.83.1).
		As could be expected, those Plataeans who had been surprised by the conspiracy fought back, and in the end captured the Theban attackers.
		Their herald accordingly invited any who wished to resume their old place in the confederacy of their countrymen [2] to ground arms with them, for they thought that in this way the city would readily join them.
	www.livius.org /pb-pem/peloponnesian_war/war_t09.html (1476 words)

	Herodotus - The Histories - Page 1000
		The Athenians were drawn up in order of battle in a sacred close belonging to Heracles, when they were joined by the Plataeans, who came in full force to their aid.
		So, as it chanced that Cleomenes, the son of Anaxandridas, and the Lacedaemonians were in their neighbourhood, they first of all offered to surrender themselves to them.
		The Thebans no sooner learned what the Plataeans had done than instantly they marched out against them, while the Athenians sent troops to their aid.
	www.galileolibrary.com /ebooks/eu04/herodotus_page_1000.htm (463 words)

	Poke's Fifteen Decisive Battles
		Now when it was noised over Greece that the Mede had come from the uttermost parts of the earth to destroy Athens, the brave Plataeans, unsolicited, marched with their whole force to assist the defense, and to share the fortunes of their benefactors.
		In the background were seen the Phoenician galleys, and, nearer to the spectator, the Athenians and the Plataeans (distinguished by their leather helmets) were chasing routed siatics into the marshes and the sea.
		In the Peloponnesian war the Plataeans again were true to the Athenians against all risks, and all calculation of self-interest; and the destruction of Plataea was the consequence.
	www.standin.se /fifteen1a.htm (9477 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, page 382 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		This festival was celebrated by the Plataeans alone, and was called the lesser Daedala (Aou'SaAa /u/tpc£), and was celebrated in the following manner : — In the neighbourhood of Alalcomene was the greatest oak-forest of Boeotia, and in it a number of oak trunks.
		The great Daedala (AcuSaAa /^eyd\a)^ in the celebration of which the Plataeans were joined by the other Boeotians, took place every sixtieth year; because at one time when the Plataeans were absent from their country, the festival had not been celebrated for a period of sixty years.
		Plutarch also adds some remarks respecting the meaning of the festival, and thinks that the dispute between Zeus and Hera had reference to the physical revolutions to which Boeotia, at a very remote period, had been subject, and their reconciliation to the restor ation of order in the elements.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-dgra/0389.html (1020 words)

	Aristides by Plutarch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		So, being reconciled, they set apart eighty talents for the Plataeans, with which they built the temple and dedicated the image to Minerva, and adorned the temple with pictures, which even to this very day retain their lustre.
		But the Plataeans, taking him up, interred him in the temple of Diana Euclia, setting this inscription over him: "Euchidas ran to Delphi and back again in one day." Most people believe that Euclia is Diana, and call her by that name.
		But some say she was the daughter of Hercules, by Myrto, the daughter of Menoetius, and sister of Patroclus, and dying a virgin, was worshipped by the Boeotians and Locrians.
	www.4literature.net /Plutarch/Aristides/7.html (698 words)

	The Battle of Marathon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The force sent by the Plataeans comprised their entire expeditionary corps which consisted of 1000 warriors.
		This fact raised substantially the morale of the Athenians, who expressed their gratitude later offering many rewards, honours and priviledges to the Plataeans.
		Thus, if the Athenians were to loose the battle of Marathon Plataea would be exposed to the revenge of Thebes unassisted.
	www.mcm.aueb.gr /ment/spetses/Lymperopoulos/pw_cont10_hk1.htm (112 words)

	[No title]
		We Plataeans have fallen to such depths of misfortune that the Thebans now supplant us in your once fond regards and you, recognizing our impotence, gave us the false choice of either dying of starvation or surrendering and, by doing so, accepting a trial for not having surrendered quick enough!
		We Plataeans, after exertions beyond our power in the cause of the Greeks against the barbarians, are rejected by all, forsaken by our allies and reduced to doubt the stability of our only hope, yourselves.
		You may find that we Plataeans will be of greater value to you as living allies than dead enemies.
	www.grettirjacobs.com /temperancehyper.htm (4253 words)

	History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
		The Plataeans had got thus far when they were cut short by Archidamus saying: "There is justice, Plataeans, in what you say, if you act up to your words.
		I could wish that you would share our labours and abide by the oaths yourselves; if this is impossible, do what we have already required of you- remain neutral, enjoying your own; join neither side, but receive both as friends, neither as allies for the war.
		But the Plataeans, observing the progress of the mound, constructed a wall of wood and fixed it upon that part of the city wall against which the mound was being erected, and built up bricks inside it which they took from the neighbouring houses.
	4literature.net /Thucydides/History_of_the_Peloponnesian_War/37.html (791 words)

	Thucydides: Peloponnesian War (Abridged): Section 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Plataea is also significantly the site of the great land battle against the Persian invasion, a decisive victory for the combined Greek forces, headed by Sparta, in 480 BC.
		The Plataeans defended their city, capturing many Theban prisoners.
		The Plataeans made such a promise, but refused to keep it, executing all 180 prisoners (an act which came to haunt them later, as Thucydides' narrative reminds us).
	www.mala.bc.ca /~johnstoi/thucydides/thucydides_2.htm (6781 words)

	Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War Book II
		He had encamped his army and was about to lay waste the country, when the Plataeans hastened to send envoys to him, and spoke as follows: "Archidamus and Lacedaemonians, in invading the Plataean territory, you do what is wrong in itself, and worthy neither of yourselves nor of the fathers who begot you.
		After this the Peloponnesians, finding that their engines effected nothing, and that their mound was met by the counterwork, concluded that their present means of offence were unequal to the taking of the city, and prepared for its circumvallation.
		The Plataeans had before sent off their wives and children and oldest men and the mass of the non-combatants to Athens; so that the number of the besieged left in the place comprised four hundred of their own citizens, eighty Athenians, and a hundred and ten women to bake their bread.
	www.bostonleadershipbuilders.com /thucydides/book02.htm (16446 words)

	Leaders and Battles: Plataea,
		In 429 B.C., this city, held by a garrison of 400 Plataeans and 80 Athenians, was besieged by the Spartans, under Archidamus.
		All the useless mouths were sent out of the place, only 110 women being retained to bake bread.
		The survivors were tried for having deserted Boeotia for Athens, at the outbreak of the war, and 200 Plataeans, and 25 Athenians were put to death.
	www.lbdb.com /TMDisplayBattle.cfm?BID=414&WID=55 (74 words)

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