Plataea
Πλάταια
(Πλάταια), a daughter of Asopus, who had a sanctuary at Plataeae (Paus. 9.1.2, 2.5), which according to some derived its name from her, but according to others from the πλάτη τῶν κωπῶν. (Strab. ix. p.406; comp. p. 409, &c.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.