• There Is A Story Of The Battle Of Marathon Around ...  PRO

  Contributed by Richard White on Jan 4, 2002 (message contributor)

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  Tags:  Endurance, Christian Disciplines

  Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

There is a story of the Battle of Marathon around 490 B.C. King Darius of the Persians,

The Athenians were outnumbered by the Persians. The city-states that surrounded the

Athenians in Marathon offered no help. But they caught the Persians by surprise by

running the full length of the plain and catching the Persians unorganized. They struck the

front, and the sides. Because of the surprise and suddenness of the attack, the Persians

fled to their ships. The Athenians won and wanted to send word back to Athens so they

could prepare for an attack by the Persians at sea. A man named Pheidippides was sent

because he was the best