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Titolo: | Marathon - 2,500 Years : Proceedings of The Marathon Conference 2010 (BICS Supplement 124) / / edited by Christopher Carey and Michael Edwards |
Pubblicazione: | [Place of publication not identified] : , : University of London Press, , 2019 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (298 pages) |
Disciplina: | 938.03 |
Soggetto topico: | Marathon, Battle of, Greece, 490 B.C |
Persona (resp. second.): | EdwardsMichael |
CareyChristopher | |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
Altri titoli varianti: | Marathon – 2,500 Years |
Marathon – 2,500 Years. Proceedings of The Marathon Conference 2010 | |
Titolo autorizzato: | Marathon – 2,500 Years |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910632992003321 |
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