The First Marathon: The Legend of Pheidippides

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EAN/UPC/ISBN Code 9780807508671


Twenty-five hundred years ago Greek soldiers faced the Persian army on the plain of Marathon. Pheidippides ran to neighboring Sparta, 140 miles away, to ask for the Spartans" aid. Afterwards he sped back to the battle, where he helped defeat the enemy.