Marathon - 2,500 Years : Proceedings of The Marathon Conference 2010 / Christopher Carey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carey, Christopher, author.

Contributor:

Edwards, Michael, editor.

Carey, Christopher, editor.

Series:

Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies Supplements Series

Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies Supplements Series ; v.7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History, Ancient.

Greece--Civilization--To 146 B.C--Congresses.

Greece.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (300 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Marathon - 2,500 Years

Place of Publication:

London University of London Press 2013

London, England : University of London Press, 2013.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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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