Marathon – 2,500 Years

Some two and a half millennia ago, in the summer of 490 BC, a small army of 9,000 Athenians, supported only be a thousand troops from Plataea, faced and overcame the might of the Persian army of King Darius I on the plain of Marathon. While this was only the beginning of the Persian Wars, and the Gr...

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description Some two and a half millennia ago, in the summer of 490 BC, a small army of 9,000 Athenians, supported only be a thousand troops from Plataea, faced and overcame the might of the Persian army of King Darius I on the plain of Marathon. While this was only the beginning of the Persian Wars, and the Greeks as a while would face a far greater threat to their freedom a decade later, the victory at Marathon had untold effects on the morale, confidence, and self-esteem of the Athenians, who would commemorate their finest hour in art and literature for centuries to come. This volume, which includes twenty-one papers originally presented at a colloquium hosted by the Faculty of Philology at the University of Peloponnese, Kalamata in 2010 to mark the 2,500th anniversary of the battle, is a celebration of Marathon and its reception from classical antiquity to the present era.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-381162025-06-11T07:57:53Z Marathon – 2,500 Years Carey, Christopher Edwards, Michael Ancient history: to c 500 CE thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHC Ancient history Some two and a half millennia ago, in the summer of 490 BC, a small army of 9,000 Athenians, supported only be a thousand troops from Plataea, faced and overcame the might of the Persian army of King Darius I on the plain of Marathon. While this was only the beginning of the Persian Wars, and the Greeks as a while would face a far greater threat to their freedom a decade later, the victory at Marathon had untold effects on the morale, confidence, and self-esteem of the Athenians, who would commemorate their finest hour in art and literature for centuries to come. This volume, which includes twenty-one papers originally presented at a colloquium hosted by the Faculty of Philology at the University of Peloponnese, Kalamata in 2010 to mark the 2,500th anniversary of the battle, is a celebration of Marathon and its reception from classical antiquity to the present era. 2021-02-10T14:52:12Z 2021-02-10T14:52:12Z 2020-05-27T16:44:56Z 2013 book ONIX_20200527_9781905670819_9 ONIX_20200527_9781905670819_9 OCN: 1193016692 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/39383 9781905670819 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/38116 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/39383/1/9781905670819.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/39383/1/9781905670819.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/39383/1/9781905670819.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/39383/1/9781905670819.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/39383/1/9781905670819.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/39383/1/9781905670819.pdf University of London Press University of London Press 10.14296/1019.9781905670819 10.14296/1019.9781905670819 3fae60e1-9f6a-42ab-a7ee-73df8c57b4f2 9781905670819 University of London Press 300 London open access
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