Marathon--2,500 years : proceedings of the Marathon conference 2010 /
Marathon Conference(2010 :Panepistēmio Peloponnēsou. Department of Philology).
Carey, Christopher(Classicist),editor.
Edwards, Michael,1958-editor.
University of London.Institute of Classical Studies.
Panepistēmio Peloponnēsou.Department of Philology,host institution.
"The chapters in this volume were delivered at a colloquium marking the anniversary of Marathon which was held at the Faculty [ie Department] of Philology, University of Peloponnese, Kalamata ; 7-10 October, 2010"--Page 1.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Battle of Marathon and modern scholarship / P.J. Rhodes -- Herodotus' Marathon / Christopher Pelling -- Marathon and the development of the exclusive hoplite phalanx / Peter Krentz -- The Battle of Marathon in pre-Herodotean sources : on Marathon verse-inscriptions (IG I³ 503/504; SEG LVI 430) / Andrej Petrovic -- The Persian wars and political conflicts in Athens / V.L. Konstantinopoulos -- The silence of Thucydides : the Battle of Marathon and Athenian pride / Andreas Markantonatos -- Marathon in art / K.W. Arafat -- Gods, heroes, and the Battle of Marathon / Ariadne Gartziou-Tatti -- The Battle of Marathon and the introduction of Pan's worship to Athens : the political dimension of a legend through written evidence and archaeological finds / Antonis Mastrapas -- Marathon and the constuction of the comic past / Christopher Carey -- The Battle of Marathon in fifth-century drama / Efi Papadodima -- As threatening as the Persians : Euripides in Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae / Ioanna Karamanou -- The Battle of Marathon in funeral speeches / Eleni Volonaki -- The historical example of Marathon as used in the speeches On the false embassy, On the crown, and Against Ctesiphon by Demosthenes and Aeschines / Athanasios Efstathiou -- Alexander the Great, Athens, and the rhetoric of the Persian wars / Christos Kremmydas -- The Battle of Marathon as a topos of Athenian political prestige in classical times / Georgia Xanthaki-Karamanou -- Intolerable clothes & a terrifying name : the characteristics of an Achaemenid invasion force / Christopher Tuplin -- Marathon in the Greek culture of the second century AD / Ewen Bowie -- Marathon and the construction of the Persian wars in antiquity and modern times : Part I, Antiquity /Michael Jung -- Marathon and the construction of the Persian wars in post-antique times / Peter Funke -- Moving targets, modern contests : Marathon and cultural memory / Lorna Hardwick.
Marathon, Battle of, Greece, 490 B.C.