Phidippides

Pheidippides in Wikipedia

Pheidippides (Greek: Φειδιππίδης, sometimes given as Phidippides or Philippides), hero of Ancient Greece, is the central figure in a story which was the inspiration for a modern sporting event, the marathon. The story The traditional story relates that Pheidippides (530 BC–490 BC), an Athenian herald, was sent to Sparta to request help when the Pe...

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Phidippĭdes in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

or Philippĭdes (Φειδιππίδης, Φιλιππίδης). A courier was sent by the Athenians to Sparta in B.C. 490 to ask for aid against the Persians, and arrived there on the second day from his leaving Athens. On his return to Athens he related that on his way to Sparta he had fallen in with Pan on Mount Parthenium, near Tegea, and that the god had bid him ask...

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