Eight glimpses of Marathon in Scroll 1 of Pausanias
2016.07.14 | By Gregory Nagy I am working on an ongoing project entitled “A Pausanias Reader in Progress,” where I translate and comment on Scrolls 1–9 of Pausanias. In my posting here for 2016.07.14, I concentrate on eight passages in Pausanias Scroll 1 that refer to Marathon in general and to the Battle of Marathon in particular. The translations are almost entirely my own, though at times I follow closely… Read more