TY  - BOOK
ED  - Carey, Christopher
ED  - Edwards, Michael
AB  - 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.
DO  - 10.14296/1019.9781905670819
ID  - OAPEN ID: ONIX_20200527_9781905670819_9
KW  - Ancient history: to c 500 CE
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/bc0dfcb1-6e73-4710-853c-bffbc686c4f2/9781905670819.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/39383
PB  - University of London Press
PP  - London
PY  - 2013
TI  - Marathon – 2,500 Years : Proceedings of The Marathon Conference 2010
ER  - 
