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They are 153 miles apart by land and 95 miles apart by air. Can you believe that in 490BC a messanger was ordered to run that distance just to send reinforcments for a battle! Not only that but after he made it he returned with the reinforcments, fought in the battle and was then ordered to run all the back to announce the victory!!! He made it but collapsed and died of exhaustion.
Edit: Actually, the story about a man running from Marathon to Athens is not true. A herald named Pheidippides was sent on the 150 mile run to Sparta (which he made in two days) for reinforcements, but the story about him being ordered to run from Marathon to Athens is just a bastardization of several accounts, mostly from long after the war. It's usually wrongly attributed to Herodotus.
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Pheidipides the runner arrived back in Athens from this run hallucinating, and died, so he was unable to do any fighting and running later at Marathon. After the Athenians defeated the Persian infantry at Marathon, they realised that the Persian cavalry, which had been absent from the battle (which allowed the Athenians to win), were sailing around to Athens to enter the city gates which were to be opened for them by traitors. The 9,000 Athenian warriors ran the 26 miles from Marathon to Athens to form up in front of the city just as the Persian cavalry began to disembark, and repelled them.
The runners of the first Marathon run were these 9,000, carrying their armour and weapons, after having already fought that morning at Marathon. The runners of today's marathon races which replicate that desperate defence, get it pretty easy by comparison.
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Who was Emperor of Rome When Athens and Sparta were Around?
All the emperors of Rome were, but Sparta and Athens were around long before there was an emperor of Rome.
Who had a army centered life Athens or Sparta?
Sparta full-time. Athens part-time.
Is it in Sparta or in Athens that only men could be citizens of a polis?
in Sparta were only free men citizens?
Metics belonged who Athens or Sparta?
SPARTA!
In what modern country are Athens and Sparta located?
Athens and Sparta are both located in Greece.
What enemies did Athens and Sparta have?
Athens was enemies with Sparta and Sparta was enemies with Athens
Who was Emperor of Rome When Athens and Sparta were Around?
All the emperors of Rome were, but Sparta and Athens were around long before there was an emperor of Rome.
Who had a army centered life Athens or Sparta?
Sparta full-time. Athens part-time.
Did the Athens or Sparta have a democracy?
Sparta because they did not have as much freedom as Athens.
What city is farther north Athens or Sparta?
Athena
What was the relationship of Athens to Sparta after their long war with Prlopennesian?
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What was the relationshib of Athens to Sparta after long war?
Well, the Athens still lost to the war and they obviously weren't friends after, so I guess you can say that that Sparta won victory and Athens surrendered.
Did Sparta or Athens have a democracy?
Athens had a democracy; Sparta, an oligarchy.
What was different about Sparta and Athens?
they had different forms of government, Sparta had oligarchy while Athens had democracy. in Athens, you became a man when you turned 18, in Sparta you had to be 30. for money Athens had drachmas and Sparta had obols.
How long did Athens go to war with Sparta?
From 431 to 404 BCE.
How were the government of Sparta and Athens different?
Athens's finnancial differences from Sparta were that Sparta had alot more gold and Athens had alot more credit.
Was Xerxes for Athens or Sparta?
Sparta
