LEADER 03799nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910463122603321 005 20211028204420.0 010 $a1-299-46371-1 010 $a0-300-16880-2 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300168808 035 $a(CKB)2670000000335046 035 $a(OCoLC)841170923 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10687941 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000860010 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11479287 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000860010 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10901930 035 $a(PQKB)10896989 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3421189 035 $a(DE-B1597)486237 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300168808 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3421189 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10687941 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL477621 035 $a(OCoLC)923603145 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000335046 100 $a20100223d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Battle of Marathon$b[electronic resource] /$fPeter Krentz ; foreword by Donald Kagan and Dennis Showalter 210 $aNew Haven ;$aLondon $cYale University Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (251 p.) 225 1 $aThe Yale library of military history 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-300-12085-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [195]-224) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tForeword --$tList of Illustrations --$tAcknowledgments --$tChronology --$tIntroduction --$t1. Athens' Alliance with Darius --$t2. Athens' Victories Over the Boeotians and Chalcidians --$t3. The Ionian Revolt --$t4. Darius and the Greeks of Europe --$t5. The Armies Arrive at Marathon --$t6. The Plain of Marathon --$t7. When Marathon Became a Magic Word --$t8. After the Fighting --$t9. What If ? --$tAppendix A. Important Ancient Sources on Marathon --$tAppendix B. The Date of the Battle --$tNotes --$tBibliographical Notes --$tIndex 330 $aHow did the city-state of Athens defeat the invaders from Persia, the first world empire, on the plain of Marathon in 490 BCE? Clever scholars skeptical of our earliest surviving source, Herodotus, have produced one ingenious theory after another. In this stimulating new book, bound to provoke controversy, Peter Krentz argues that Herodotus was right after all. Beginning his analysis with the Athenians' first formal contact with the Persians in 507 BCE, Krentz weaves together ancient evidence with travelers' descriptions, archaeological discoveries, geological surveys, and the experiences of modern reenactors and soldiers to tell his story.Krentz argues that before Marathon the Athenian army fought in a much less organized way than the standard view of the hoplite phalanx suggests: as an irregularly armed mob rather than a disciplined formation of identically equipped infantry. At Marathon the Athenians equipped all their fighters, including archers and horsemen, as hoplites for the first time. Because their equipment weighed only half as much as is usually thought, the Athenians and their Plataean allies could charge almost a mile at a run, as Herodotus says they did. Krentz improves on this account in Herodotus by showing why the Athenians wanted to do such a risky thing. 410 0$aYale library of military history. 606 $aMarathon, Battle of, Greece, 490 B.C 607 $aGreece$xHistory$xPersian Wars, 500-449 B.C 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aMarathon, Battle of, Greece, 490 B.C. 676 $a938/.03 700 $aKrentz$b Peter$0154246 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463122603321 996 $aThe Battle of Marathon$92454128 997 $aUNINA