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Battle of Plataea
479 BCE land battle during the second Persian invasion of Greece

Aristides
thumb|An [[ostrakon bearing the name "Aristeides [son] of Lysimachus", displayed in the Ancient Agora Museum in Athens]]
Aristides ( ; , ; 530–468 BC) was an ancient Athenian statesman. Nicknamed "the Just" (δίκαιος, díkaios), he flourished at the beginning of Athens' Classical period and is remembered for his generalship in the Persian War. The ancient historian Herodotus cited him as "the best and most honourable man in Athens", and he received similarly reverent treatment in Plato's Socratic dialogues.

Alexandros I of Macedon
ruler of Macedonia from c. 498 to 454 BC
Pausanias
Spartan general and regent (died c. 477 BC)
Mardonius
Achaemenid military commander during Greco-Persian Wars (died 479 BC)
Kithairon
Cithaeron or Kithairon (Κιθαιρών, -ῶνος) is a mountain and mountain range about sixteen kilometres (ten miles) long in Central Greece. The range is the physical boundary between Boeotia region in the north and Attica region in the south. It is mainly composed of limestone and rises to . The north-east side of the range is formed by the mountain Pastra.
Serpent Column
victory column in Istanbul, Turkey, from Delphi
Aristodemus of Sparta
5th-century BC Spartan warrior
Androcydes
Greek painter