This is the History of the World Podcast with me Chris Hasler

And you're listening to volume three, the classical world

episode 10

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So, So, So, And L Location. The city of Marathon is based on the east coast of the Attica Peninsula, which is the same peninsula where one can find the city of Athens.

This area of the Balkan Peninsula would have certainly fallen into the Mytonian sphere of influence during the second

millennium B.C. E. not least of all because the Attica Peninsula was the closest mainland area to the well populated and

civilized Cycladic islands. The Marceans would have certainly used the Attica Peninsula to develop a dominance over the

a g and sea and its islands and neighbouring lands. As we all very well know by now, the Mycenae culture near enough disappeared by 1100

B.C. and we sometimes mention a race of people called the Dorians when supposing who may have

supplanted the Mycenians living in the Balkan Peninsula.

We tend to attribute the Peloponnese and the Polish of Sparta as the place where the Dorians

migrated to, if indeed they did. If we suppose that they did then it may be that a people called the Ionian

were displaced from the Peloponnese and migrated to Attica.

And if this is the case, then it would support the theory that the ancient Athenians were Ionian with no Dorian influence but we are a very long way

from confirming that it's not surprising to state that we know very little about this region after 1100

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