TY - BOOK ID - 142392955 TI - Marathon - 2,500 Years : Proceedings of The Marathon Conference 2010 AU - Carey, Christopher AU - Edwards, Michael PY - 2013 PB - London, England : University of London Press, DB - UniCat KW - History, Ancient. KW - Greece KW - Civilization UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:142392955 AB - 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. ER -