What happened at Plataea?

Answer 1

The sea battle of Salamis had defeated the Persian fleet, but the Persian invasion army remained. By winning the land battle at Plataea and simultaneously the sea-land battle at Mycale, the Persian invasion was repelled.

Answer 2

The battle of Plataea was won by an alliance of Greek city-states led by Sparta against an alliance of Persia and Greek city-states. The defeated Persians withdrew from their invasion of mainland Greece, but fighting continued fro another 30 years until the Persians gave up trying to enforce peace on the Greeks, and left them to go back to fighting each other.

Answer 3

The Battle of Plataea 479 BC marked the final battle of the Second Persian invasion of Greece . This battle would mark the last time a Persian army invaded mainland Greece .

Answer 4

Well, it was destroyed at the beginning of the Peloponnesian War (431 BCE), but earlier (479 BCE) it was the site of one of the two land victories which ended the Persian invasion of Greece.