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Athens and Sparta Adventures
CHAPTER TWO: THE BATTLE OF MARATHON
End of Chapter Two

Previous: [link]
Chapter Three: [link]

It's over! I know, you're heart broken. It'll be a little while before Chapter Three is finished since school is coming up and all. D: But I know you can be patient. X3
I will be posting all of the pages in one place on tumblr tonight, so you can look at them there as well.

When I put it like that, I realized what an awful legend Pheidippides got stuck with. XD Is it a true story? Who knows- but there were and are people who believe it, and that's what I'm interested in. It was actually likely a combination of the story of his run to Sparta and the story of the Athenians making it back home in time to scare off the Persians. This story is where the word Marathon came to mean a race in modern English- a word that came to be used as such with the restoration of the Olympic Games.

Upon seeing Athens filled with soldiers, the Persians assumed they had back-up already in the city and sailed straight back to Persia!

The Athenians really did take the Spartans to the plains of Marathon to show off. Of course, there were still respects to be paid and people to bury... as well as a lot of marble the Persians had left behind! What did the Athenians do with the marble? They built their own monument to their victory, of course!!
Here is a modern photograph of the tomb of the 192 Athenians who died in battle: [link] They were given the honour of being buried at Marathon where they had fought, instead of being brought back to Athens to be buried. Being buried on the battleground wasn't really a common thing for the Greeks!

...I forgot to mention the famous Greek playwright Aeschylus fought at Marathon! He comes in later, don't worry. Aeschylus actually wanted to be remembered as someone who had fought at Marathon rather than a poet!

The Athenians actually did unceremoniously and quickly bury the Persians as well, perhaps out of respect or superstition I would assume.
...Of course, the Persians wouldn't have like this because it was their custom to expose rather than bury the dead since they thought burying them would hinder their natural return to the earth (which is weird... haha).

Why is it I find a nice picture of Miltiades AFTER I'm about to submit the last page of the chapter?! Why?!

Tune in next time for *drum roll*
... I guess you'll just have to wait and find out!

Description
Athens and Sparta Adventures
CHAPTER TWO: THE BATTLE OF MARATHON
End of Chapter Two

Previous: [link]
Chapter Three: [link]

It's over! I know, you're heart broken. It'll be a little while before Chapter Three is finished since school is coming up and all. D: But I know you can be patient. X3
I will be posting all of the pages in one place on tumblr tonight, so you can look at them there as well.

When I put it like that, I realized what an awful legend Pheidippides got stuck with. XD Is it a true story? Who knows- but there were and are people who believe it, and that's what I'm interested in. It was actually likely a combination of the story of his run to Sparta and the story of the Athenians making it back home in time to scare off the Persians. This story is where the word Marathon came to mean a race in modern English- a word that came to be used as such with the restoration of the Olympic Games.

Upon seeing Athens filled with soldiers, the Persians assumed they had back-up already in the city and sailed straight back to Persia!

The Athenians really did take the Spartans to the plains of Marathon to show off. Of course, there were still respects to be paid and people to bury... as well as a lot of marble the Persians had left behind! What did the Athenians do with the marble? They built their own monument to their victory, of course!!
Here is a modern photograph of the tomb of the 192 Athenians who died in battle: [link] They were given the honour of being buried at Marathon where they had fought, instead of being brought back to Athens to be buried. Being buried on the battleground wasn't really a common thing for the Greeks!

...I forgot to mention the famous Greek playwright Aeschylus fought at Marathon! He comes in later, don't worry. Aeschylus actually wanted to be remembered as someone who had fought at Marathon rather than a poet!

The Athenians actually did unceremoniously and quickly bury the Persians as well, perhaps out of respect or superstition I would assume.
...Of course, the Persians wouldn't have like this because it was their custom to expose rather than bury the dead since they thought burying them would hinder their natural return to the earth (which is weird... haha).

Why is it I find a nice picture of Miltiades AFTER I'm about to submit the last page of the chapter?! Why?!

Tune in next time for *drum roll*
... I guess you'll just have to wait and find out!