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Ancient Greece: Myth, Art, War - Art, Myth and Marathon

Art, Myth and Marathon

Ancient Greece: Myth, Art, War

05/31/13 • 48 min

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The Battle of Marathon in 490 BC – when against all odds the Athenians (with a bit of help from the Plataeans) defeated the Persians was too good a PR opportunity for the Athenians to ignore and they made the most of it. In this lecture Dr Gillian Shepherd looks at the imagery associated with war and especially the Battle of Marathon and the series of victory monuments erected in Athens, Attica and Delphi. Marathon entered Athenian mythology: the gods themselves – Athena, Herakles, Theseus and Echetlaos no less - had turned up at Marathon to help the Athenians.

Copyright 2013 Gillian Shepherd / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

05/31/13 • 48 min

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