Battle of Marathon

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1. Story
2. An Athenian and Plataean force defeats a Persian expedition on the plain of Marathon in Attica. Herodotus records that before the battle the Athenians sent the runner Pheidippides to Sparta to seek help, a journey of roughly 250 km. He records no run from Marathon to Athens afterwards. The 192 Athenian dead are cremated and buried under a mound on the plain. The day of the battle within 490 BCE is disputed in the sources, with both August and September dates argued.
3. Knowledge
4. Marathon and the Tumulus of the Athenians
5. Pheidippides
6. Battle of Marathon
7. Connections
8. Marathon and the Tumulus of the Athenians
9. Pheidippides
10. Battle of Marathon
11. Valerios Stais excavates the Tumulus of the Athenians
12. The first modern Olympic marathon, Marathon to Athens
13. The first modern Olympic marathon, Marathon to Athens
14. Battle of Marathon
15. The first modern Olympic marathon, Marathon to Athens
16. Histories, Book VI, chapters 105–106
17. Evidence
18. Herodotus records that before the Battle of Marathon the Athenians sent a trained runner, named Pheidippides or Philippides, to Sparta to request help, and that he encountered Pan on Mount Parthenion; Herodotus records no run from Marathon to Athens. V55 verification basis: the chapter attribution and the absence of the Marathon-to-Athens run were read in encyclopaedic summary (Britannica, National Geographic); the Greek text was not consulted in this session.
19. The Soros at Marathon holds the ashes of 192 Athenians who fell in 490 BCE, stands about 10 m high with a diameter of about 50 m, and was excavated by Valerios Stais in 1891. V55 verification basis: read through an attributed search summary; the ministry page was not retrieved and the coordinate is taken from the standard reference entry for the Marathon tumuli rather than from this page.