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.
| ISBN: | 9781905670529 |
| Publication date: | 2nd December 2013 |
| Author: | Marathon Conference, University of London, Panepistemio Peloponnesou |
| Publisher: | University of London Press an imprint of placeholder |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 298 pages |
| Series: | Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies Supplement |
| Genres: |
Ancient history Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval |