Marathon
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Title
Marathon
Subject
Byron's Med Letters
Description
Visited as of 1810-05-03. A town in Greece, the site of the battle of Marathon in 490 BC, in which the heavily outnumbered Athenian army defeated the Persians. The
tumulus or burial mound, also called the "Soros," for the 192 Athenian dead that was erected near the battlefield remains a feature of the coastal plain. Wiki
tumulus or burial mound, also called the "Soros," for the 192 Athenian dead that was erected near the battlefield remains a feature of the coastal plain. Wiki
Creator
Paul M Curtis
Source
Byron to Francis Hodgson, from Athens, January 20th, 1811*
Byron, George Gordon, Lord. Byron’s Letters and Journals. Ed. Leslie A. Marchand. 13 vols. London: John Murray 1973–94.(Source: text from BLJ II 36-8)
Byron, George Gordon, Lord. Byron’s Letters and Journals. Ed. Leslie A. Marchand. 13 vols. London: John Murray 1973–94.(Source: text from BLJ II 36-8)
Publisher
The Byron Online Project
Date
13 April 2014
Contributor
Paul M Curtis
Rights
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International License.
Relation
David Radcliffe's "Lord Byron and his Times:"
http://www.lordbyron.org/
Peter S Cochran's website: https://petercochran.wordpress.com/byron-2/byron/
http://www.lordbyron.org/
Peter S Cochran's website: https://petercochran.wordpress.com/byron-2/byron/
Language
English
Type
Place
Coverage
1809-1811
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Marathon
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Citation
Paul M Curtis, “Marathon,” ByronOnlineProject, accessed April 26, 2024, https://byrononlineproject.com/items/show/265.
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