These ancient Greek weapons were quite literally toxic. ... The cauldron was filled with burning coals, pine resin, and sulfur—the same accelerants innovated by the Spartans at Plataea.

The Battle of Plataea Battle scene, from The Greeks documentary The defeat of the Persian navy at Salamis in 480 was by no means the end of the war, but it was the decisive battle that made ...

Plataea was at the time a pawn in a war of the ancient Greek superpowers, Athens and Sparta, and was besieged by the Theban allies of Sparta, who coveted Plataea’s territory.

Pausanias, the Spartan King Who Defeated the Persians at Plataea and Died Entombed by His Own Fellow Citizens by Jorge Álvarez March 7, 2025 March 7, 2025. ... and, with the triremes he still had, ...

That history can be traced right the way back to ancient times, long before Greece and Turkey even emerged as independent states. ... Salamis (480 BC) and Plataea (479 BC) ...

New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. xxx, 204. Illus, maps, chron., notes, biblio., index. $24.95. ISBN: 0199747326 As the primary source of the Graeco-Persian Wars, the historian, Herodotus ...

Hoplite infantrymen were the military ideal of ancient Greece and were recruited from the wealthy middling ranks of society, particularly the farmers. They wore bronze armor breastplates, helmets ...

And here’s where the parallels with the Siege of Plataea are particularly salient. Plataea was at the time a pawn in a war of ...