The idea of Marathon : battle and culture / Sonya Nevin.

"The Battle of Marathon changed the course of history in ancient Greece. To many, the impossible seemed to have been achieved - the mighty Persian Empire halted in its advance. What happened that day, why was the battle fought, and how did people make sense of it? This bold new history of the battle...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nevin, Sonya (Author)
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.
Subjects:
Marathon, Battle of, Greece, 490 B.C.
Marathon, Battle of, Greece, 490 B.C. > Influence.
Greece > Civilization > To 146 B.C.
Iran > History > To 640.
Bataille de Marathon, Grèce, 490 av. J.-C.
Bataille de Marathon, Grèce, 490 av. J.-C > Influence.
Grèce > Civilisation > Jusqu'à 146 av. J.-C.
Iran > Histoire > Jusqu'à 651.
Civilization.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Greece.
Iran.
To 640
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xi, 236 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: A day of blood and fire
  • Herodotus
  • 1. Athenians at a Turning Point
  • Athens before the Graeco-Persian Wars
  • The Cimonids
  • Wider society
  • 2. The Greek World
  • On being Greek
  • Life in Sparta
  • Life in Boeotia
  • Ionia
  • Lydia
  • Persians in Ionia
  • 3. Persia
  • Who are the Persians?
  • Persia under Cyrus II
  • Clothing and arms
  • The rise of Darius
  • Key personalities
  • 4. Revolt in Ionia
  • The temptation of Naxos
  • Finding allies
  • Revolt unfolds
  • The fall-out
  • Motives
  • 5. The Plain of Marathon
  • Momentum builds
  • The plain
  • Final decisions at Athens
  • 6. The Fight
  • Gods at war
  • The armies prepare
  • Cavalry
  • Debate
  • Herodotus' battle narrative
  • 7. Surviving Marathon
  • The wounded
  • The spoils
  • The dead
  • 8. Events after Marathon
  • Persia
  • Athens
  • Paros
  • Political dominoes
  • A new invasion
  • The Persians
  • 9. Memories of Marathon in Fifth-Century Art and Literature
  • Picturing Marathon
  • A new era
  • Writing Marathon
  • Dramatists
  • The end of the century
  • 10. Marathon beyond the Fifth Century
  • New Graeco-Persian Wars
  • The orators
  • New histories
  • Athens in the face of Macedon
  • Alexander
  • Polybius
  • 11. Marathon under Rome
  • Greek culture under Rome
  • Plutarch
  • Self-sacrifice
  • Herodes Atticus
  • 1,000 years
  • 12. Marathon after Antiquity
  • Travellers
  • Ideals and associations
  • Youth culture
  • Marathon running
  • The Colonels and the Shah
  • Young people's Marathon in the twenty-first century.