Plataiai
Plataiai ( ancient Greek Πλαταιαί (τῆς Βοιωτίας) , also Πλάταια ( f. Sg. ); Latin Plataeae (Boeotiae) , German Platää ) was an ancient city in southern Boiotia , near the border with Attica , known as the site of the battle of Plataiai 479 vataiai . Chr.
The polis was already mentioned by Homer in the ship catalog of the Iliad and had been in use since 519 BC. Always a reliable ally of Athens ; B. in the battle of Marathon . Since 479 BC BC - the Greeks defeated the Persians under Pausanias - the name of the city was a symbol of the victorious resistance against the Persians. The neighboring Thebes tried several times to annex Plataiai. In the Peloponnesian War , after the siege of Plataiai in 427 BC , the Thebans caused The complete destruction of the city. They destroyed it a second time in 372 BC. After the reconstruction. Alexander the Great built the city at the end of the 4th century BC. BC, and Plataiai continued until the end of antiquity. Today the village of Platees ( modern Greek Πλαταιές ) is located nearby , about 10 km south of Thiva .
Plataiai was the bishopric; this is what the modern titular bishopric Plataea goes back to.
literature
- Vasilios Aravantinos , Andreas Konecny, Ron Marchese: Plataiai. The 2000 campaign. In: Annual books of the Austrian Archaeological Institute in Vienna. Volume 70, 2002, ISSN 0078-3579 .
- Andreas Konecny, Vassilis Aravantinos, Ron Marchese: Plataiai. Archeology and history of a Boiotic polis (= special publications of the Austrian Archaeological Institute. 48). With contributions by Michael J. Boyd, Alexandra Charami, Kyriaki Kalliga, Dimitris Koutsodimos and Kalliopi Sarri. Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-900305-65-9 .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Homer, Iliad 2,504.
Coordinates: 38 ° 13 ' N , 23 ° 16' E