Where Marathon was
Marathon was a coastal deme of the tribe Aiantis, in northeastern Attica, the site of the Battle of Marathon in 490 BC, and capital of the Marathon tetrapolis. Athenaeum places it in the Attica & Saronic Gulf region. The source gives a located position.
Periods the source attests
These are the historical periods in which the source records the place. A gap is not evidence that it was empty.
- Classical Greece
- Hellenistic world
- Roman world
Its names
The source lists these other names and spellings for Marathon.
- Μαραθών
- Marathṓn, Marathon
About the illustration
Generated historical interpretation. Not an archaeological reconstruction.
Questions about ancient Marathon
Where does the information about Marathon come from?
From the place's record in the Pleiades gazetteer, with its references, names and periods kept as the source gives them.
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