Marathon - 2,500 Years. Proceedings of the Marathon Conference 2010 (Bics Supplement 124): Volume 124 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781905670529)

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.

Author: Christopher Carey
ISBN-10: 1905670524
ISBN-13: 9781905670529
Publisher: University of London Press
Language: English
Published: 12/02/2013
Pages: 298
Format: Paperback