The story of the world's most famous marathoner may be more apocryphal than historic, but the athletic movement he inspired could be hitting its stride exactly 2,500 years later. On Sunday, more than ...
ATHENS (Reuters Life!) - Exactly two and a half millennia after the Battle of Marathon, an event widely acknowledged to have ensured the democratic legacy of Western culture, two veteran Greek ...
A long, long time ago, in 490 B.C., legend has it there was a great battle, with 60,000 Persians set to attack 10,000 Athenians in a Greek city named Marathon. There was a messenger named Pheidippides ...
The story of the first marathon is interesting. As the legend goes, a young Athenian messenger named Pheidippides was sent from Athens to Sparta to request Spartan support against the Persians in the ...
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