 The Sicilian historian Diodorus Siculus, writing in the 1st century BC in his "Bibliotheca Historica", also provides an account of the Battle of Plataea.This account is fairly consistent with Herodotus's, but given that it was written much later, it may well have been derived from Herodotus's version.The Battle is also described in less detail by a number of other ancient historians including Plutarch, Ctesias of Cnidus, and is alluded by other authors, such as the playwright Aeschylus.