Herodotos and Marathon
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3938533 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A W Gomme (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1952 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 77 |
| Publication date | 1952-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Phoenix (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8299 • E-ISSN: 1929-4883 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1086577 |
| OpenAlex | W2324042255 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
EVERYONE knows that Herodotos' narrative of Marathon will not do. Many improvements have been suggested: some good, some bad; I am not going to add to these, though I shall suggest one as preferable to the others. My theme is rather this: if we reject Herodotos, are we justified at all in correcting, or adding to, his narrative, or ought we just to sit back, and say we know nothing, because correction is bound to he arbitrary? If we adopt the former, on what principles mray we correct
Aeronautics · Classical Antiquity Studies · Computer Science · Engineering · Historical and Literary Studies · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies
The tyranny of the Pisistratidae
Central Asia and Eastern Iran
The liberation of Greece
The reform of the Athenian state by Cleisthenes
Carthaginians and Greeks
The Etruscans
Greece before the Persian invasion
The Ionian Revolt
Material culture
The expedition of Xerxes
Herodotus, Marathon, and Athens
The Cambridge Ancient History
The languages of Italy
The Oenoe Painting in the Stoa Poikile, and Herodotus' Account of Marathon
Reflections on the shield at Marathon
| Citations per year | 0.34 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1982 - 2001 (20) |
| Highly cited | No |