WAR IN THE HELLENISTIC WORLD

THE MEMORY OF WAR
Figure 11.2 Grave relief of a young soldier in Rhodes. Archaeological Museum of
Rhodes (courtesy of the Museum).
race in armor, both the race that starts at the polyandreion and the other
obligatory races.” The polyandreion, the common burial place of the
Athenians who had died in the sea battle of Salamis, was one of the
most important historical monuments in Athens.
On the festival of the Theseia, which honored Theseus as the legendary
founder of the Athenian state and as an archetypical ephebe, and on the
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