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DZ Season 063 Part 47. 300 Spartans and All That – Plataea – The Battle – Death of a Leader.

DZ Season 063 Part 47. 300 Spartans and All That – Plataea – The Battle – Death of a Leader.

Update: 2025-07-30
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All the Spartans acknowledged that he was the most courageous Spartan who fought at the Battle of Plataea, but he was unanimously disqualified by them from receiving any honours. Why?

Tag words: Spartans; Battle of Plataea; Victor Davis Hanson; The Western Way of War; Persians; Greek phalanx; Plutarch; Herodotus; The Histories; Lacedaemonians; Pausanias; Mardonius; Athenians; Tegeans; JFC Fuller; Decisive Battles of the Western World; Boeotians; Richard Nelson; Armies of the Greek and Persian Wars; Artabazus; Aeschylus;

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