The Greek victory proved that their superior armor and tactics would persevere over a numerically superior enemy .
Athens victory over the Persian expeditionary force gave them great confidence. It also brought a lesson that they needed sea power to match a full Persian invasion, which the Greek city-states had assembled by the time of the major Persian invasion ten years later.
The victory of Greeks in the battle of Marathon was a surprise not only for the Greeks but for the world since they were fighting the Persian Armed forces that were 10 times bigger in numbers.
In the Battle of Marathon, the Athenian and Plataean armies defeat of the Persian expeditionary force convinced other Greek city-states that they could hold off Persian attempts to dominate them.
The Athenians were lurking in the hills around the Plain of Marathon to avoid the Persian cavalry, while waiting for Spartan reinforcement, when the say the Persian cavalry being loaded onto ships. Seizing the opportunity, the ran down and defeated the inferior Persian infantry unprotected by their cavalry.
Having won, they then realised that the cavalry was being shipped around to Athens to sieze the city in the absence of the army, so they ran back the 26 miles to Athens an formed up in front of the city just as the Persian cavalry was disembarking. Frustrated, the Persians went home.
It was not the Greeks, it was Athens and its ally Plataia.
The Athenians waited on the edge of the Plain of Marathon for reinforcement from Sparta. Then saw the superior Persian cavalry being embarked on ships and ran down and defeated the unsupported inferior Persian infantry.
It was the Athenians and their allies from Plataea who were facing a punitive expedition from Persia for interfering in a revolution in Asia Minor. They were waiting in the hills around the Plain of Marathon, where the Persian cavalry could not get at them, for the arrival of the Spartans who had agreed to help. After ten days they saw the Persian cavalry being embarked on ships. They seized the opportunity and their armoured warriors ran down and defeated the inferior unarmoured Persian infantry which were no longer protected by their cavalry.
They then got to thinking about where the Persian cavalry was going, and realised it was being shipped around to undefended Athens. So they ran back the 26 miles from Marathon and arrived to form up in front of the city as the Persian cavalry was being disembarked. The Persians gave up and went home.
This run by the 18,000-strong Athenian army is commemorated in today's 26-mile Marathon runs. The difference is that today's pampered athletes get it easy. The Athenians had to run back carrying armour and weapons, wearing sandals; they lived on a diet of barley bread, vegetables and fish and chicken sauce. Tough blokes.
The Greeks did
Yes, they won. But they only won because they had Sparta's army help them.
100metres The very first one from the Battle of Marathon to Athens was 26 miles 365 feet. The guy that ran it ran that, got to athens, said "We won!" and died ^^
On the Plain of Marathon, 26 miles nort of Athens,
The Battle of Marathon started on August 12th 490 BC. The Battle of Marathon ended on August 12th 490 BC.
The Greeks did
The Battle of Marathon was won by Athens and its ally Plataia in 490 BCE.
Athens won at Marathon. Rome won against Carthage.
The word marathon comes from the Battle of Marathon. The Athenians won the battle and told their messenger to tell the rest of Athens of the victory. After 25 miles he reached Athens and said, "Rejoice, for we have won!" Then he collapsed dead.
The battle of Marathon began in 490 BC. The battle took place between the Persian Empire and the Greeks. Eventually, the Greeks won the war.
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
Yes, they won. But they only won because they had Sparta's army help them.
No, it was the other way round. Athens Defeated the Persian Army at the Battle of Marathon.
The marathon is named after the fabled run of the Greek soldier Pheidippides, a messenger from the Battle of Marathon to Athens. The legend states that he was sent from the town of Marathon to Athens to announce that the Persians had been defeated in the Battle of Marathon. It is said that he ran the entire distance without stopping and burst into the assembly, exclaiming We have won, before collapsing and dying.
Spears, swords, armour, helmets. The Persians had wicker shields.
500 years after the battle of marathon
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