GrecoPersian war
In September of 490 BC. The Greco-Persian war rages on in the Marathon Plain of Northwest Attica. The Athenians have just repulsed the first Persian invasion of Greece. The Greek army was vested to ten different generals each controlling one day of battle. The generals were evenly divided on whether to wait for the Persians to attack or to attack them. A civil official, Callimachus, who decided to attack, broke the tie. Four of the generals ceded their commands to the Athenian general Miltiades making him commander in chief. The Greeks did not want to face the Persian cavalry on the open plain, but before dawn the Greeks learned the cavalry was temporarily absent from the
The order of events is really not known but they believe that the first day was devoted for sacrifices to the gods. On other days wrestling, boxing, and the pancratium, a combination of the two, was held. In the first of the sports the object was to throw your opponent to the ground three times. The second day began with foot races. He led his contingent of 10,000 Athenians and 1,000 Plataeans against the Persian force of 15,000. Herodotus tells that a trained runner Pheidippides was sent from Athens to Sparta before the battle to request assistance from the Spartans. Miltiades ordered a general attack on the Persian army. By re-enforcing his battle lines flank thus decoying the Persians best troops into pushing back his center where they were surrounded by inward-wheeling Greek wings. He is said to have run some 150 miles in about two days. For centuries Olympic games have never stopped. Through all the fighting there was one tradition that continued through all the ages. Horse racing and a pentathlon next, the pentathlon included sprinting, long jumping, javelin, discus, and wrestling. The Olympian games were celebrated in the summer every four years in the sanctuary of Zeus at Olympia. The Olympic games are a way for all kinds to get along if only for a short time.
Common topics in this essay:
Zeus Olympia,
Greece Greek,
Athens Sparta,
Plataeans Persian,
Marathon Athens,
Greeks Persian,
Olympians Olympics,
Attica Athenians,
BC Greco-Persian,
Athenian Miltiades,
olympic games,
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