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 ...

It’s not as ancient as you think Who invented the marathon? It’s not as ancient as you think ...

The 10th TUI International Marathon of Rhodes will be dedicated to Kallipateira on April 6, 2025. In the Marathon and Half ...

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 ...

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 ...