#2.5- Bonus: Pheidippides True Story or Myth?

12/08/20 • 15 min

I just wished to give my thanks to the growing numbers of listeners out there in this vast world by talking about a runner whose act has gone down in legend. This young man known as Pheidippides should've been the inspiration for the awesome meme hold my beer since if running the entire distance from Athens to Sparta wasn't enough. What about running the roughly 150 miles back to Athens as well. That means he ran almost to a little over 300 miles. Then, Pheidippides proceeded to run all the way to where the Athenian army was encamped at Marathon and still had breath to give his report on whether or not Sparta would fight against the Persians.

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Battle of Marathon Part 2

A battle will now be fought on the beaches of Marathon. Only 25 miles away is the city state of Athens who awaits the results with baited breath. If the citizen army of this nascent democracy is destroyed then nothing would be able to stop the vengeance of Persia. Miltiades must hold and defeat the seemingly invincible forces of Datis and Artaphernes or his beloved Athens will burn.

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Marshall the Empire

It is now ten years after the miraculous victory at Marathon. A thousand nations of the Persian Empire are on the march. This vast host drains the rivers dry and shakes the very earth with its march. Such a vast host had never before been assembled in the annals of history and this great army had but one objective. The complete conquest of all Greece. Xerxes would at last gain sweet revenge against these impudent Greeks. Athens, Sparta and a uneasy coalition of city states are all that stand against the might of Persia. Soon few will stand against many, and even the army of a god king will bleed.