Famous and decisive battles of the world; . he great enclosure was stormed and carried, and nownothing remained but the work of slaughter and pillage. Over this part of the story one can scarce repress a mercy was shown, no quarter given. Greece revenged herwrongs in one terrible and unparalleled massacre. Of the exact losses of PlatSea we have no accurate best authorities place those of the Greeks at about thirteenhundred, all told—mainly Spartans, Tegeans, Athenians, andPlataeans; though the six hundred lost by the Megarians astheir share, the result of their bombastic
Famous and decisive battles of the world; . he great enclosure was stormed and carried, and nownothing remained but the work of slaughter and pillage. Over this part of the story one can scarce repress a mercy was shown, no quarter given. Greece revenged herwrongs in one terrible and unparalleled massacre. Of the exact losses of PlatSea we have no accurate best authorities place those of the Greeks at about thirteenhundred, all told—mainly Spartans, Tegeans, Athenians, andPlataeans; though the six hundred lost by the Megarians astheir share, the result of their bombastic effort to reap some ofthe fruits of the victory, are of course included. The Asiaticloss is simply incalculable. Herodotus states that only threethousand survived of those who did not march away withArtabazus. This would bring the total of their killed or mas-sacred to over one hundred thousand. Plataea ended once and for all the attempted march of con-quest of Persia. From this time forth *^here was »n end toeastern invasion. 371 B. C. ,0R a century after Platsea there was almostincessant warring in Greece. Jealousies ofall kinds had risen in the sisterhood ofstates. By dint of her rigorous militarysystem Sparta had managed to keep at thehead of affairs until the close of what wastermed the Peloponnesian war, althoughAthens had pushed her hard for leadershipbefore that struggle. But sieges and pesti-lence at home reduced the power and num-bers of the Athenians, and the great expedition sent to conquerSicily in 415 B. C. met with woful disaster at Syracuse. Thenthe last fleet of Athens was destroyed at ^gospotami by Lysan-der, and in 404 B. C. Athens surrendered and Sparta stoodsupreme throughout Greece. But Sparta proved revengeful and despotic. She humbled herneighbors in many inexcusable ways. Her former allies turnedagainst her. Fresh wars broke out. In the movements thatfollowed the Spartans succeeded in seizing and holding the cit-adel of Thebes—the Cadmei
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