02174nam 2200409 450 991040413330332120230514173511.0(CKB)4100000011301986(NjHacI)994100000011301986(EXLCZ)99410000001130198620230514d2013 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierMarathon - 2,500 Years Proceedings of The Marathon Conference 2010 /Christopher Carey, Michael EdwardsLondon :University of London Press,2013.1 online resource (300 pages) illustrations1-905670-52-4 1-905670-81-8 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.Marathon – 2,500 Years Marathon – 2,500 Years. Proceedings of The Marathon Conference 2010 Marathon – 2,500 YearsHistory, AncientGreeceCivilizationTo 146 B.CCongressesHistory, Ancient.930Carey Christopher126082Edwards MichaelNjHacINjHaclBOOK9910404133303321Marathon - 2,500 Years3364741UNINA