Research Catalog

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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Additional Authors

• Edwards, Michael, 1958-
• Carey, Christopher (Classicist)
• 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

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

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

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 anniversary of the battle"--Back cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 1905670524
• 9781905670529

OCLC

869343105

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library