ABSTRACT
Miltiades in particular was commemorated by a statue in the ‘monument of the eponymous heroes’ (Paus. 10. 10. 1). is statue stood alongside statues of Athena, Apollo and the local heroes after whom the Athenian tribes or citizen units were named. So daring a juxtaposition was not quite deication or even the lesser religious honour of heroization, but it came close – closer, one feels, than Kimon (if he was behind the commission, as the French experts on the sanctuary believe) would have felt able to go in Athens itself.3 Kimon was not the only statesman who sought to recall Marathon specically: it has been ingeniously suggested that the 192 horsemen of the Parthenon frieze, begun after Kimon’s death and completed as late as the 430s, may depict the Marathon dead, who numbered just 192, and who were given heroic honours (see Fig. 3.1). at would justify the otherwise dicult-to-explain horsemen on the frieze (Marathon was not a cavalry battle), because cavalry competitions were a feature of funerals for heroes.4
