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Marathon
    The plain of Marathon today

I would like to thank Tom Soule and Ann Blasingham for their presentations and tours of the Marathon area and Tom for most of the bibliography on Marathon.



Bibliography:

General Studies/Reconstructions:Old Map of Marathon
    Baldwin, B. "Re-Running Marathon." History Today 48 (1998): 44-49.
        (This piece of popular writing is worth reading as a general introduction for those unfamiliar with the events.)
    Doenges, N. "The Campaign and the Battle of Marathon." Historia 47 (1998): 1-27.
        (This extremely recent - May 1998 - study should be one's starting point, as it covers the full breadth of the subject and included the most up-to-date bibliography available.)
    Evans, J.A.S. "Herodotus and the Battle of Marathon" Historia 42.3 (1993) 279.
    Green, P. The Greco-Persian Wars. rev. ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.
    Burn, A.R. Persia and the Greeks: The Defense of the West, c. 546-478 BC.  London: Edward Arnold, 1962.
    Lazenby, J. The Defense of Greece 490-479 BC. David Brown Book co., 1993.
    Hammond, N.G.L. "The Campaign and the Battle of Marathon." Journal of Hellenic Studies 88 (1968): 13-57.
    Pritchett, W.K. Marathon. University of California Publications in Classical Archaeology, no. 4. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1960.

Archaeology:
    Marinatos, S. "From the Silent Earth." Athens Annals of Archaeology 3 (1970): 61-68.
     --. "Further Discoveries at Marathon." Athens Annals of Archaeology 3 (1970): 153-166.
     --. "Further News from Marathon." Athens Annals of Archaeology 3 (1970): 349-366.
    Mersch, Andrea "Archaologischer Kommentar zu den "Grabern der Athener und Plataier" in der Marathonia" Klio 77 (1995) 55-64.
    Petrakos, B. Marathon: An Archaeological Guide. Athens: Archaeological Society of Athens, 1996.
    Schliemann, H. "Das Sogenannte Grab der 192 Athener in Marathon." Zeitschrift fur Ethnologie 16 (1884): 85ff.
    Travlos, J. Bildlexicon zur Topographie des Antiken Attika. Tubingen: Ernst Wasmuth Verlag, 1988.
    Venderpool, E. "A Monument to the Battle of Marathon." Hesperia 35 (1966): 93-106.
    Van der Veer, J.A.G. "The Battle of Marathon. A Topographical Survey." Mnemosyne 35 (1982): 290-321.
    Welwei, K.W. "Das Sogenannte Grab der Plataier im Vranatal bei Marathon." Historia 28 (1979): 101-106.
    Whatley, N. "On the Possibility of Reconsructing Marathon and Other Ancient Battles." Journal of Hellenic Studies 84 (1964): 119-139.
    Whitley, James "The Monuments That Stood Before Marathon: Tomb Cult and Hero Cult in Archaic
     Attica" AJA 98.2 (1994) 213.

Other:
Geagan, D.J. "A Family of Marathon and Social Mobility in Athens of the First Century B.C" Phoenix
     46.1 (1992) 29-44.
Krumeich, Ralf "Namensbeischrift oder Weihinschrift?: zum Fehlen des Miltiadesnamens beim
     Marathongemalde" AA 1996.1 (1996) 43-51.
 
 

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