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The choice of Hera as the goddess glorified at the expense of the dispossessed Plataeans might have been motivated by Hera's alleged jealousy of Zeus' giving birth to [[Athena]], patron goddess of Athens, without recourse to her.
The conspicuous worship of Hera at Plataea continued long past the end of the war. In later times the temple was renowned for a sculpture by [[Callimachus (sculptor)|Callimachus]] of Hera seated as a bride, as well as a sculpture of a matronly Hera in a standing position.<ref>Pausanias, [http://perseus.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Paus.+9.2.1 9.2.7 – 9.3.3] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151106170825/http://perseus.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Paus.+9.2.1 |date=2015-11-06 }}; Pausanias explains this by telling the myth of the [[Daedala]].</ref>
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{{Commonscat|Ancient Plataea}}
* {{cite EB1911|wstitle=Plataea |volume=21 |short=x}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060615021624/http://www.herodotuswebsite.co.uk/plataea.htm The battle of Plataea]
* [https://www.jstor.org/pss/1086634 Plataea and the Fifth-Century Boeotian Confederacy by I. A. F. Bruce]
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