02091nam 2200361 450 991063299200332120230219200314.0(CKB)5490000000080365(NjHacI)995490000000080365(EXLCZ)99549000000008036520230219d2019 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierMarathon - 2,500 Years Proceedings of The Marathon Conference 2010 (BICS Supplement 124) /edited by Christopher Carey and Michael Edwards[Place of publication not identified] :University of London Press,2019.1 online resource (298 pages)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, Battle of, Greece, 490 B.CMarathon, Battle of, Greece, 490 B.C.938.03Edwards MichaelCarey ChristopherNjHacINjHaclBOOK9910632992003321Marathon – 2,500 Years2989501UNINA