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The Battle of Marathon 490 B.C.: Miltiades, the Hoplite Charge, and the Birth of Strategic Defense (Epic Battles of Ancient History, #6)
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At Marathon in 490 B.C., the survival of Greece was decided in a single charge.
The Persian Empire had already destroyed the city of Eretria and landed a powerful expeditionary force on the plain of Marathon. Athens faced the prospect of invasion, political collapse, and the return of tyranny under Persian authority. Against the might of the empire stood a single citizen army supported by a small contingent from Plataea.
This book examines the Battle of Marathon not as a patriotic legend, but...