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The Battle of Marathon took place in 490 BC during the first Persian invasion of Greece. ... Marathon was won because ordinary, amateur soldiers found the courage to ...
' Son of Pheídippos ') or Philippides (Φιλιππίδης) is the central figure in the story that inspired the marathon race. Pheidippides is said to have run 40 kilometres (25 mi) from Marathon to Athens to deliver news of the victory of the Battle of Marathon, and, according to Herodotus, to have run from Athens to Sparta.
The second Persian invasion of Greece (480–479 BC) occurred during the Greco-Persian Wars, as King Xerxes I of Persia sought to conquer all of Greece. The invasion was a direct, if delayed, response to the defeat of the first Persian invasion of Greece (492–490 BC) at the Battle of Marathon, which ended Darius I's attempts to subjugate Greece.
Marathon was the first time a phalanx faced more lightly armed troops, and revealed how devastating the hoplites could be in battle. [111] The phalanx formation was still vulnerable to cavalry (the cause of much caution by the Greek forces at the Battle of Plataea ), but used in the right circumstances, it was now shown to be a potentially ...
Each chapter of the book describes a different battle. The fifteen chapters are: [2] The Battle of Marathon, 490 BC Excerpt: "Two thousand three hundred and forty years ago, a council of Athenian Officers was summoned on the slope of one of the mountains that look over the plain of Marathon, on the eastern coast of Attica. The immediate subject ...
"It was an ultra marathon." ... Reilly acknowledged the work on Instagram, posting a post-battle photo with Bentley. "One of the greatest scene partners I have ever had. ... Voros won't answer ...
At the ensuing Battle of Marathon, the Athenians won a remarkable victory, which resulted in the withdrawal of the Persian army to Asia. [35] The site of the battle today. Mount Kallidromon on the left, and the wide coastal plain formed by accretion of fluvial deposits over the centuries; the road to the right approximates the 480 BC shoreline.
The third season of Battle on the Beach wrapped up on Sunday night, and fans had a lot to say about who won the grand prize.