The memory of Marathon and Miltiades in Late Republican Rome, in K. Buraselis-E. Koulakiotis (eds), Marathon, the Day After, Athens 2013, 151-166 (original) (raw)
The paper examines the reinterpretation of the memory of the Battle of Marathon and the figure of Miltiades during the Late Republican period in Rome, particularly the 50s and 40s B.C. It argues that this historical memory was used to redefine Roman identity amidst the civil wars and that Roman authors of the time, such as Cicero and Nepos, engaged with this theme in their rhetoric and philosophy. Through analyzing the reception of Marathon, the paper also seeks to establish parallels between public discourse and artistic representations of eminent figures in that era.