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Marathon Memorials
Coming to Terms with War through Public Monuments in 5th century B.C. Greece
Carl Rottmann, View of the Marathon Bay, 1847
The Chronology of Greco-Persian Wars
500 –494
490
480
479
B.C. Revolts of the Greek cities in Asia Minor
B.C. Battle of Marathon
B.C. Battle at Thermopylae
Plundering of Athens and Battle at Salamis
B.C. Battle at Plataea
Inaugural Lecture
4 February 2011
Prof. Dr. Natascha Sojc
Byvanck Chair of Classical Archaeology
Faculty of Archaeology
Leiden University
Marathon: so-called Athenian burial mount
Excavation sections
Plan by V. Stais (1893)
offering trenches E and Γ
Funerary objects.
Sophilos amphora (c. 580-570 B.C.)
Attic black figure ceramics, first half of 6th c. B.C.
Vessel with depiction of a tropaion (mid-5 th c. B.C.)
Olympia: Dedication of weaponry
Godess of vctory Nke attaching a helmet to a wooden beam
Conical helmet (c. 500 B.C.) Spoil from Marathon
Findspot in well 34, late Archaic stadium II
(To Zeus this helmet was dedicated) by the Athenians, who had
taken it from the Medes.
Olympia: Dedication of weaponry
Corinthian helmet (c. 500 B.C.)
Findspot at late Archaic stadium II
Miltiades has dedicated (this to Zeus).
Persian trefoil arrowheads, presumably bent on impact. Spoils from Marathon
Persian spearhead (H. Baitinger 1999)
Marathon: Column tropaion
Reconstruction C. Petrakos (1995)
column height c. 10 m
Sculptural fragment of robe.
Olympia: Nike of Paionias (c. 410 B.C.)
Athens, Acropolis
Votive offering by Kallimachos (c. 490 B.C.)
Reconstruction M. Korres (2004)
Delphi
Athenian treasury (c. 500 B.C.) and adjoining votive base for statues.
The Athenians dedicated (this) to Apollo Pythios from spoils,
which they (had taken) from the Medes in the battle of Marathon.
Idealized male statue (Riace bronze c. 460.B.C.)
Votive base for statues.
Athens, Agora
Stoa Poikile, c. 460 B.C.
Local mythical hero
of Marathon
Troop from Plataea coming
to aid the Athenians
Mythical hero
Herakles
Mythical hero
Theseus
Miltiades, providing the
Greeks encouragement
Athenians determinedly
march against the enemy
Schematic reconstruction of the Marathon painting in the Stoa Poikile
Reconstruction (W.B. Dinsmoor 1981)
Godess Athena
Epizelos, blinded
fighting giant
Individual clashes between
Greeks and fleeing Persians
Man with the dog
Persian wielding
an axe
Kynegeiros, attempting to prevent a Persian ship from fleeing
Persians in hasty retreat
through the swamps
Persian ships
Vessels for wine drinking
Painted by Brygos, battle of Olympian gods against the giants (490 B.C. to 480 B.C.).
Vase painting depicting Greeks and Persians in combat ( c. 470 B.C.)
Byvanck Chair of Classical Archaeology
Faculty of Archaeology
Prof. Dr. Natascha Sojc
[email protected]
Leiden University
Postbus 9515 · 2300 RA Leiden