The History of the World Podcast, written and presented by Chris Hasler.

Welcome to the history of the World Podcast magazine. Oh, you know, you know.

Oh, you know. Oh, you know. Hello everyone welcome to the history of the World Podcast magazine and today we continue

our history A to Z on the letter B. Now yesterday you may have joined us and we went through a few bees the

building of the Great Pyramid of Giza the Bronze Age Collaps the Babylonian

captivity and Belchizar. Now we're going to continue on with five

other bees. We're going to start with the Battle of Marathon, which was a significant historical event.

It took place in 490, B.C. during the first Persian invasion of Greece and it was fought on the

marathon plane inheastern Attica. The Athenians, with the aid of a small force from Plataia, faced the Persian forces commanded by Dattis and Artofurnis.

And the battle is also associated with the legendary run of a messenger from marathon to Athens to announce the victory, which inspired the

modern marathon race. According to legend, the messenger ran approximately 25 miles, delivered the news and then died of exhaustion.

However, Herodotus mentions a runner called Fadipides, who ran to Sparta to seek help before the battle and that

distance was around 150 miles and apparently he ran that in two days.

So there's a sort of a conflict in the story there, where this legendary run came from.

But let's go back now and listen to what we were saying about the Battle of

Marathon when we first made the podcast episode about it.

So now we have some background on the

Akeminid Persians and the Athenian Greeks, who were the two most notable

parties in opposition to each other at the Battle of Marathon.

The road to conflict between these two parties was a situation that was brewing during for some time and escalated significantly

with the Ionian revolt.

The Ionian revolt was something that we covered during

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