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Greeks versus Persians .
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In 490 BC Greeks victoriously fought Persians in the Battle of Marathon in an attempt from King Darius I to subjugate Greece.
The Persians .
Marathon - it was the Athenians.
Marathon, Greece .
There was no city of Marathon. It was a plain 26 miles north of Athens.
490 BC When a runner took a message to Athens with the news that the Greeks had won a battle against the Persians at Marathon
The Athenians and their Platian allies defeated the Persians punitive expedition sent against them in a land battle on the Plain of Marathon.
Go back to their habitual fighting of each other.
Marathon.
Pan is alleged to have supported them.