Although probably the greatest runner of ancient Greece, it was not Phidippides who ran what we call a marathon. The modern sport of marathon running comes from another runner's return from the ...

This ancient script has remained unsolved ... weapons were literally toxic These ancient Greek weapons were literally toxic Who invented the marathon? It’s not as ancient as you think Who ...

the history of the marathon race dates back far longer than a century, stretching thousands of years into ancient Greece, when Pheidippides ran from Marathon to Athens, to announce the victory ...

Modern marathon races cover the same distance as ... Modern scientists do the same kind of thing. Ancient Greek stories are still told today. We love films about superheroes and monsters.

Hoplite infantrymen were the military ideal of ancient Greece and were recruited from ... to run at them in full armor during the battles of Marathon in 490 and Plataea 479. These hoplite runs ...