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, the drivi...