The destruction of Athens

Mardonius withdrew from Athens after setting the city on fire and utterly destroying anything that was left standing of walls, houses and temples. Herodotus   [9.13.3]

But the commonweatlth of Athens, when the barbarians [oi( ba/rbaroi] had left their territory at once broght back from the places they had sent them [Trozen, Salamis, and Aegina] their children and women and what survived of their household goods and they set about rebuilding the city and the walls.  For of the surrounding wall just rubble was still standing and many houses were fallen into ruins with only a few remaining in which the important Persians had quartered themselves.  Thucydides [1.89.3]