Marathon - 2,500 Years : Proceedings of The Marathon Conference 2010
Some two and a half millennia ago, in the summer of 490 BC, a small army of 9,000 Athenians, supported only be a thousand troops from Plataea, faced and overcame the might of the Persian army of King Darius I on the plain of Marathon. While this was only the beginning of the Persian Wars, and the Gr...
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London
University of London Press
2013
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