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Yiannis Kouros
Pheidippides Feat II- Yiannis Kouros
Sep 27, 2011
Athens, Greece
Sep 29, 2011
Athens, Greece
The flame that burned inside the ancient Athenian message runner Pheidippides, calling Spartans for help to conquer the Persians in the Battle of the Marathon, burns also inside Yiannis. Spartathlon The great historian of antiquity Herodotus (490 B.C.) described the details of the Battle of Marathon. He mentioned Pheidippides, an Athenian messenger (530 BC–490 BC), who was sent by his generals to Sparta, hoping to get military aid to reinforce the Athenian forces against the forthcoming Asiatic incursion. Herodotus wrote that Pheidippides ran 246K in 1,5 day to deliver his message in Sparta.In 1982 four English men followed the route description of Herodotus to find...
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