Battle of Marathon · Atlas

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History of the Peloponnesian WarClassical · Greek

The battle fought between the Athenians and the Persians, placed by Thucydides shortly after the deposition of tyrants across Greece.

I say, the deposition of the tyrants in the rest of Greece, not many years subsequently the battle of Marathon was fought between the Medes and Athenians.

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For we say that at Marathon we alone stood in the van of danger against the barbarian;

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They lay them then in the public sepulchre, which is in the fairest suburb of the city, and in which they always bury those who have fallen in the wars (except, at least, those who fell at Marathon;

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The HistoriesClassical · Greek

The decisive battle in which the outnumbered Athenians and Plataeans defeated the Persian invasion force.

They fought a long time at Marathon.

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Many other famous Athenians also fell there.

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In this way the Athenians overpowered seven ships.

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Against CtesiphonClassical · Greek

The famous Athenian victory used as a precedent for honoring collective achievement without excessive individual reward.

The battle of Marathon is pictured there.

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Miltiades, who won the battle of Marathon, or yonder man?

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Constitution of the AtheniansClassical · Greek

Athenian victory referenced as a chronological marker preceding the first use of ostracism.

In the twelfth year after this, having won the battle at Marathon, in the archonship of Phaenippus, after letting two years pass after the victory, the people being now confident, they used for the first time the law concerning ostracism, which had been enacted out of suspicion of those in positions of power, because Pisistratus, being a popular leader and general, had become tyrant.

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StromataLate Antiquity · Greek

The Athenian victory over the Persians at Marathon, achieved through Miltiades' Moses-like night march.

whence Miltiades, fittingly making use of a trackless way and the night, and attacking the Persians, whom Datis led, accomplished the victory in the contest with those whom he himself led.

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Against AristocratesClassical · Greek

Athenian victory used to exemplify collective civic glory.

or that the victory at Marathon belonged to Miltiades,—it was the victory of the commonwealth.

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Take first Themistocles, who won the naval victory at Salamis, Miltiades, who commanded at Marathon, and many others, whose achievements were not on a level with those of our commanders today.

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AntidosisClassical · Greek

The Athenian victory over the barbarians that brought glory to the city.

what sort was he who conquered the barbarians in the battle at Marathon and won for the city the glory which has come to Athens from this victory;

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To PhilipClassical · Greek

The Athenian victory over Persia celebrated as a source of praise for Athens.

no, all these things have been the source of many complaints against her, while because of the battle of Marathon, the naval battle at Salamis, and most of all because her citizens abandoned their own homes to insure the deliverance of Hellas, she enjoys the encomiums of all mankind.

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Against LeocratesClassical · Greek

The Athenian victory over the Persian invasion force, cited as evidence of ancestral courage.

Athenians, guarding Greece, subdued in fight At Marathon the gilded Persians’ might.

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Certainly those who confronted the barbarians at Marathon, by defeating an army from the whole of Asia, won, at their own peril, security for every Greek alike.

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