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He then ran the 40 km (25 mi) to the battlefield near Marathon and back to Athens to announce the Greek victory over Persia in the Battle of Marathon (490 BC) with the word νικῶμεν (nikomen [8] 'We win!'), as stated by Lucian chairete, nikomen ('hail, we are the winners') [9] and then collapsed and died.
Datis was ordered to reduce Athens and Eretria to slavery, and bring the Greek slaves before the Achaemenid king. To achieve this, Datis sought to establish a bridgehead on the eastern coast of Greece. In 490 BCE, Datis sailed from the Ionian shoreline to Samos, and then he travelled through the Icarian sea to the islands of Delos and Naxos. [3]
Delos is the small island directly to the bottom-left of Mykonos. Moving on, the Persian fleet approached Delos, whereupon the Delians also fled from their homes. [87] Having demonstrated Persian power at Naxos, Datis now intended to show clemency to the other islands, if they submitted to him. [85] He sent a herald to the Delians, proclaiming:
The sophist and magnate Herodes Atticus was born in Marathon. In 1926, the American company ULEN began construction on the Marathon Dam in a valley above Marathon, in order to ensure water supply for Athens. It was completed in 1929. About 10 km 2 of forested land were flooded to form Lake Marathon. Marathon battle memorial.
The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: From Marathon to Waterloo. Hood, E. The Greek Victory at Marathon Archived 2017-08-14 at the Wayback Machine, Clio History Journal, 1995. Battle of Marathon by e-marathon.gr (in Greek) The Battle of Marathon September 490 BC Archived 2016-10-19 at the Wayback Machine (in Greek)
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.
The Ionian Revolt was triggered by the dissatisfaction of the Greek cities of Asia Minor with the tyrants appointed by Persia to rule them. In 499 BC, the then-tyrant of Miletus, Aristagoras, launched a joint expedition with the Persian satrap Artaphernes to conquer Naxos, in an attempt to bolster his position in Miletus.
The restored Nike monument was unveiled in 2010 as part of a series of events organised by the Greek Ministry of Culture and Tourism commemorating the 2,500th anniversary of the Battle of Marathon. At the unveiling, Pavlos Geroulanos , the Greek minister of tourism, said: