About the Author

Richard Billows is a professor at Columbia University specializing in Ancient Greek and Roman history and Greek epigraphy. In addition to Marathon he is the author of Antigonos the One-Eyed, Kings and Colonists and Julius Caesar. He lives in New York City.

Reviews

'Acutely sensitive... Billows, taking the long view, sees Marathon as preserving Athenian democracy and thus all that we think of as our classical heritage.' Paul Cartledge, Wall Street Journal