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Title

Marathon--2,500 years : proceedings of the Marathon conference 2010 / edited by Christopher Carey & Michael Edwards.

Publication

[London] : Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 2013.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Carey, Christopher (Classicist)
• Edwards, Michael, 1958-
• University of London. Institute of Classical Studies.

Description

vi, 291 pages : illustration; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies supplement ; 124

Uniform Title

Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies. Supplement ; 124.

Subject

• Marathon, Battle of, Greece, 490 B.C. > Congresses
• Greece > Civilization > To 146 B.C. > Congresses

Note

• "This volume ... 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 anniversarty of the battle"--Back cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

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.

Call Number

JFE 14-2623

ISBN

• 1905670524
• 9781905670529

OCLC

869343105

Title

Marathon--2,500 years : proceedings of the Marathon conference 2010 / edited by Christopher Carey & Michael Edwards.

Imprint

[London] : Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 2013.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies supplement ; 124

Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies. Supplement ; 124.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Carey, Christopher (Classicist), editor.

Edwards, Michael, 1958- editor.

University of London. Institute of Classical Studies.

Research Call Number

JFE 14-2623