The idea of Marathon : battle and culture

1. Verfasser: Nevin, Sonya , [VerfasserIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022
Umfang/Format: xi, 236 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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Parallelausgabe: Nevin, Sonya., Idea of Marathon (Online version:) | ISSN: 9781350157613
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  • 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.