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ISBN: 9780300120851 9780300168808 0300168802 0300120850 1299463711 9781299463714 Year: 2010 Volume: *1 Publisher: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press,
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How did the city-state of Athens defeat the invaders from Persia, the first world empire, on the plain of Marathon in 490 BCE? Clever scholars skeptical of our earliest surviving source, Herodotus, have produced one ingenious theory after another. In this stimulating new book, bound to provoke controversy, Peter Krentz argues that Herodotus was right after all. Beginning his analysis with the Athenians' first formal contact with the Persians in 507 BCE, Krentz weaves together ancient evidence with travelers' descriptions, archaeological discoveries, geological surveys, and the experiences of modern reenactors and soldiers to tell his story.Krentz argues that before Marathon the Athenian army fought in a much less organized way than the standard view of the hoplite phalanx suggests: as an irregularly armed mob rather than a disciplined formation of identically equipped infantry. At Marathon the Athenians equipped all their fighters, including archers and horsemen, as hoplites for the first time. Because their equipment weighed only half as much as is usually thought, the Athenians and their Plataean allies could charge almost a mile at a run, as Herodotus says they did. Krentz improves on this account in Herodotus by showing why the Athenians wanted to do such a risky thing.
Marathon, Battle of, Greece, 490 B.C --- Marathon, Battle of, 490 B.C. --- Marathon, Battle of, Greece, 490 B.C. --- Greece --- Iran --- History --- Persian Wars, 500-449 B.C.
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ISBN: 0801414504 9780801414503 Year: 1982 Publisher: Ithaca (N.Y.): Cornell university press
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Greece --- Athens (Greece) --- History --- -Greece --- -History --- -Athens (Greece) --- Griechenland --- Grèce --- Hellas --- Yaṿan --- Vasileion tēs Hellados --- Hellēnikē Dēmokratia --- République hellénique --- Royaume de Grèce --- Kingdom of Greece --- Hellenic Republic --- Ancient Greece --- Ελλάδα --- Ellada --- Ελλάς --- Ellas --- Ελληνική Δημοκρατία --- Ellēnikē Dēmokratia --- Elliniki Dimokratia --- Grecia --- Grčija --- Hellada --- اليونان --- يونان --- al-Yūnān --- Yūnān --- 希腊 --- Xila --- Греция --- Gret︠s︡ii︠a︡ --- Influence. --- Greece - History - Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C. --- Greece - History - Spartan and Theban supremacies, 404-362 B.C. --- Athens (Greece) - History - Thirty Tyrants, 404-403 B.C.
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ISBN: 0856684635 0856684643 9780856684630 9780856684647 Year: 1993 Publisher: Warminster Aris and Phillips
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Greece --- History --- Greece - History - To 146 B.C. --- Greece - History - Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C
ISBN: 0856686417 0856686425 9780856686429 9780856686412 Year: 1996 Publisher: Warminster Aris and Phillips
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ISBN: 0890055033 0890055041 9780890055045 9780890055038 Year: 1994 Publisher: Chicago, IL : Ares,
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ISBN: 0941690768 094169075X 9780941690768 9780941690751 Year: 1997 Publisher: Claremont Regina
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Thucydides --- Kagan, Donald --- Bibliography --- Greece --- History --- Politics and government --- Thucydides. --- Kagan, Donald. --- Bibliography. --- Thucydides - History of the Peloponnesian War --- Kagan, Donald - Bibliography --- Greece - History - Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C --- Greece - Politics and government - To 146 B.C
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