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Who was the person who ran twenty-six miles to Athens to tell the news of the Victory at Marathon?
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∙ 10y ago
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∙ 10y agoA common answer is Pheidippides, however he was already dead - having run to Sparta and back to invite them to come to help fight off the Persians, and he died of exhaustion ten days before Marathon.
After the victory at Marathon, the Athenian army of 9,000 armoured warriors ran back to Athens to protect it as they had realised that the Persian fleet was rowing the Persian cavalry around to Athens to gallop up and seize the city whose gates would be opened by traitors. The 9,000 arrived back just in time to stop this.
So the person(s) were 9,000 Athenian soldiers who ran carrying their armour and weapons. Today's marathon runners get off lightly, not carrying the load or wearing sandals. They get off lightly in their pretence of matching the run.
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∙ 9y agoThough considered a myth, Pheidippides ran from Marathon to spread the news of the victory against the Persians. That said, his epic destination was not Rome. It was Athens.
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∙ 12y agoThe marathon is named after Pheidippides.
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∙ 15y agoPheidippides
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∙ 15y agosparticus
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I assume you mean the person who ran 26 miles from Marathon to Athens to announce the victory won there by the Greeks. His name according to Herodotus was Pheidippides.
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