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oapen-20.500.12657-393832024-04-19T09:26:11Z 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. 2020-05-27T16:44:56Z 2020-05-27T16:44:56Z 2013 book ONIX_20200527_9781905670819_9 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/39383 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781905670819.pdf University of London Press University of London Press 10.14296/1019.9781905670819 10.14296/1019.9781905670819 4af45bb1-d463-422d-9338-fa2167dddc34 University of London Press 300 London open access
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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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