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Marathon--2,500 years : proceedings of the Marathon conference 2010

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"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.

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.

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