Battle of the Marathon Flashcards
From the time the battle in Marathon occurred, the Athenians (fighting)
against the Persians and Ar[taph]e[rnes], Darius’s neph[ew, an]d [Da]tis the
commander, which the Athenians won, 227 years (= 490/89 BCE), when
[Ph]a[i]n[i]p[pid]es t[h]e second was archon in Athens.
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Where was the passage from?
Pausanias, Description of Greece - Attica
When did the battle occur?
490 BCE
Where did it happen?
Northeastern Attica
What happened during the battle?
The Athenians repulsed the first Persian invasion of Greece.
Who was Artaphernes?
Nephew of Darius and satrap of Sardis. He received the embassy from Athens sent by Cleisthenes in 507 BC.
Who was Darius?
Darius the Great was the third Persian Kind of Kinds of the Achaemenid Empire - reigning from 522 BC until his death in 486 BC.
Who was Datis?
He was a Median admiral who served the Persian Empire, under Darius the Great. He had a joint leadership with Artaphernes of the Persian forces in the first campaign of the Persian Wars against the Greeks.
