1 Where is Potidaea in relation to Plataea?

2 The Battle Of Plataea was counted among history's most lethal battles, and one of the most important in early Western Civilization.

3 After his defeat at Plataea in 479 BC, Xerxes, king of Persia, was retreating from Greece when his ship, overloaded with Persian warriors, was caught in a heavy storm.

4 The Greeks slaughtered the Persians at Plataea and succeeded in driving them out of Greece.

5 Aristodemus went home and found himself ostracized, a national villain until he expiated his disgrace by dying a hero at Plataea.

6 Now, here on this rugged patch of earth called Plataea...