1 ago 479 ano antes da era comum - Battle of Plataea

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Queen Esther wife of Xerxes Chronological, Historical and Archaeological Evidence by Gerard Gertoux

Mardonios died in 479 BCE (= year 17 of Xerxes). A batch of tablets on the domain of Mardonius is dated 3-10 years of Xerxes, in addition, according to Herodotus, the general died in August 479 BCE at the Battle of Plataea (The Histories IX :81-84).

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Wikipedia contributors. (2022, November 21). Battle of Plataea. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 21:49, November 23, 2022, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle_of_Plataea&oldid=1123024662

...was the final land battle during the second Persian invasion of Greece.

The previous year the Persian invasion force, led by the Persian king in person, had scored victories at the battles of Thermopylae and Artemisium and conquered Thessaly, Phocis, Boeotia, Euboea and Attica. However, at the ensuing Battle of Salamis, the allied Greek navy had won an unlikely but decisive victory, preventing the conquest of the Peloponnesus. Xerxes then retreated with much of his army, leaving his general Mardonius to finish off the Greeks the following year.

In the summer of 479 BC the Greeks assembled a huge (by ancient standards) army and marched out of the Peloponnesus. The Persians retreated to Boeotia and built a fortified camp near Plataea. The Greeks, however, refused to be drawn into the prime cavalry terrain around the Persian camp, resulting in a stalemate that lasted 11 days. While attempting a retreat after their supply lines were disrupted, the Greek battle line fragmented. Thinking the Greeks were in full retreat, Mardonius ordered his forces to pursue them, but the Greeks (particularly the Spartans, Tegeans and Athenians) halted and gave battle, routing the lightly armed Persian infantry and killing Mardonius.

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