The Allied fleet defeated the demoralized remnants of the Persian fleet in the Battle of Mycale — on the same day as Plataea, according to tradition.

At the decisive Battle of Plataea, the Allies destroyed the Persian army, whilst apparently on the same day, the Allied navy destroyed the remnants of the Persian fleet at the Battle of Mycale.

However, the following year, the remainder of the Persian army was decisively beaten at the Battle of Plataea and the Persian navy at the Battle of Mycale.

The complete destruction of the Persian navy, along with the destruction of Mardonius's army at Plataea ( allegedly on the same day as the Battle of Mycale ), decisively ended the invasion of Greece.

After Plataea and Mycale, the allied Greeks would take the offensive against the Persians, marking a new phase of the Greco-Persian Wars.

Various explanations have been attempted to explain this occurrence, and also the alleged fact that Plataea and Mycale took place on the same day.

Estimates made of Mardonius's huge camp at Plataea, which was planned and built with plenty of time, suggest it might have accommodated 70, 000-120, 000 men ; it is improbable that such a large camp could have been built at Mycale in the time-frame that Herodotus suggests.

With the twin victories of Plataea and Mycale, the second Persian invasion of Greece was over.

The Battle of Salamis saved Greece from immediate conquest, but it was Mycale and Plataea which effectively ended that threat.

Conversely, the Battles of Plataea and Mycale were both fought from a relative position of Greek strength, and against lesser odds ; perhaps the Greeks were even expecting to win and had certainly seen the opportunity to deal the final blow.

Militarily, the major lesson of both Mycale and Plataea ( since both were fought on land ) was the repeated confirmation of the superiority of the hoplite over the more lightly armed Persian infantry, as had first been demonstrated at Marathon.

In 479BC-478BC, after the Greek victories ( against Persia ) at Plataea and Mycale, Greek forces under the command of Xanthippus besieged and defeated the Persian garrison at Sestos allowing the Greeks to conquer the city.

Herodotus recounts that, on the afternoon of the Battle of Plataea, a rumour of their victory at that battle reached the Allies ' navy, at that time off the coast of Mount Mycale in Ionia.

Whilst many modern historians doubt that Mycale took place on the same day as Plataea, the battle may well only have occurred once the Allies received news of the events unfolding in Greece.

After Plataea and Mycale the Greek allies would take the offensive against the Persians, marking a new phase of the Greco-Persian Wars.

After the Greek victories at Plataea and the Battle of Mycale, the Spartans lost interest in liberating the Greek cities of Asia Minor.

Although Mycale was in every sense a decisive victory, it does not seem to have been attributed the same significance ( even at the time ) as, for example the Athenian victory at the Battle of Marathon or even the Greek defeat at Thermopylae.

Erasistratus appears to have died in Asia Minor, as the Suda mentions that he was buried by mount Mycale in Ionia.

The victories of the Greeks during the great Persian war had the effect of enfranchising their kinsmen on the other side of the Aegean ; and the battle of Mycale ( 479 BC ), in which the defeat of the Persians was in great measure owing to the Ionians, secured their emancipation.

Priene ( Ancient Greek: Πριήνη, Priēnē ) was an ancient Greek city of Ionia ( and member of the Ionian League ) at the base of an escarpment of Mycale, about north of the then course of the Maeander ( now called the Büyük Menderes or " Big Maeander ") River, from today's Aydin, from today's Söke and from ancient Miletus.

In 440 BC, Samos was at war with Miletus over Priene, an ancient city of Ionia in the foot-hills of Mycale.

Mount Mycale is part of a larger ridge, which continues in Samos on the other side of the Samos Strait, and to the northeast in the Aydin Dağlari (" Aydin Mountains "), ancient Messogis range, on the other side of low hills and passes.

The Battle of Mycale (; Machē tēs Mykalēs ) was one of the two major battles that ended the second Persian invasion of Greece during the Greco-Persian Wars.

Of these the most lofty and striking were Mimas and Corycus, in the peninsula which stands out to the west, facing the island of Chios ; Sipylus, to the north of Smyrna, Corax, extending to the south-west from the Gulf of Smyrna, and descending to the sea between Lebedus and Teos ; and the strongly marked range of Mycale, a continuation of Messogisin the interior, which forms the bold headland of Trogilium or Mycale, opposite Samos.

In addition to the Panionic festival at Mycale, which was celebrated mainly by the Asian Ionians, both European and Asian coast Ionians convened on Delos Island each summer to worship at the temple of the Delian Apollo.

At about 350 BCE the Persian-empire satrap, Mausolus ( a Carian ) planned a magnificent new city on the steep slopes of Mycale, where it would be, it was hoped, a permanent deep-water port ( similar to the many Greek island cities, which seem to delight in being located on and up seaside escarpments ).

Mycale was, in many ways, the beginning of a new phase in the conflict, in which the Greeks would go on the offensive against the Persians.

A New Zealand sea sponge, Mycale hentscheli, which grows in Pelorus Sound, may hold the key to an anti-cancer drug.

Mycale is scored transversely by numerous ravines through which sources drain.

The destruction of this army, and the remnants of the Persian navy allegedly on the same day at the Battle of Mycale, decisively ended the invasion.

The immediate result of the victory at Mycale was a second revolt amongst the Greek cities of Asia Minor.

In the aftermath of Mycale, the Spartan king Leotychides had proposed transplanting all the Greeks from Asia Minor to Europe as the only method of permanently freeing them from Persian dominion.

The defeat of Persia at the Battle of Mycale in 479 BC meant the liberation of Chios from Persian rule.

The Greeks also attacked and burned the remaining Persian fleet anchored at Mycale.

Nevertheless, the Athenians and Spartans attacked and burned the laid-up Persian fleet at Mycale, and freed many of the Ionian towns.

The Persians, seeking to avoid a battle, beached their fleet below the slopes of Mycale, and, with the support of a Persian army group, built a palisaded camp.

The allied Greeks followed up their success by destroying the rest of the Persian fleet at the Battle of Mycale, before expelling Persian garrisons from Sestos ( 479 BC ) and Byzantium ( 478 BC ).

Their morale boosted, the Allied marines fought and won a decisive victory at the Battle of Mycale that same day, destroying the remnants of the Persian fleet, crippling Xerxes ' sea power, and marking the ascendancy of the Greek fleet.

In the aftermath of Mycale, the Spartan king Leotychides had proposed transplanting all the Greeks from Asia Minor to Europe as the only method of permanently freeing them from Persian dominion.

Leotychidas defeated Persian military and naval forces at the Battle of Mycale on the coast of Asia Minor in the summer of 479 BC ( possibly around mid-August ).

" The steep heights of Mycale " and Miletus are also in the Hymn to Apollo, where Leto, pregnant with Apollo, an especially Ionian god, travels about the Aegean looking for a home for her son, and settles on Delos, the major Ionian political, religious and cultural center of Classical Greece.