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marathonas neo english final neo:Marathonas

16 Apr 2019

And if the small but charming col- lection of vases in the museum speaks in simple terms of the life and death of the many anonymous people who lived parallel to history, the grave offerings found in the Tumulus of the Marathon warriors have kept alive the material presence of these heroes, just as the marble trophy retains the imprint of the battle’s eternal glory. [...] The region provides an opportunity to take a unique voyage into the distant past through a succession of sites scattered over the plain, in the shady ravine of Oinoe, at the edge of the lagoon in Kato Souli, on the estuaries of the river at Plasi and on the edge of the Arnos plain. [...] And all this, at a time when, with each passing day, the hori- zon was growing darker with omens of the storm approaching from the east: the marshalling of the Persian fleet in Cilicia, its course across the Aegean, the conquest of Naxos, the old-time master of the sea, the sub- ∫ 92 jugation of Paros, the surrender of Carystus, the desperate defence by its ally Eretria and the rumours of their pr. [...] Significant assistance in understanding the unfolding of the battle – to the extent that the various attempts to identify the sites do not increase confusion – is provided by the shape of the plain and the topography of the monuments associated with the battle, such as the tumulus of the Athenians, which we assume to have marked the centre of the battle, the sanctuary of Heracles, which Herodotus. [...] The weakening of the centre – in conjunction with the re- inforcement (according to Greek military tactics) of the collision force on the right wing, where the supreme commander Callimachus was at the head of his Aiantis tribe, and with the presence of the Plataeans on the left – appeared from the outset to prefigure the course of the battle.

Authors

macuser

Pages
335
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Greece