Greece vs. Persia: The Battle of Marathon (TRIH ep 669, part 2)
490 BCE · Resource
In this episode of The Rest Is History, Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook dramatise the pivotal Battle of Marathon in 490 BC. Drawing on Herodotus and Dan Brown’s narrative in Persian Fire, they recount the Athenian phalanx’s charge against Darius I’s Persian forces, the strategic decisions of Miltiades, the role of the runner Pheidippides, and the delayed Spartan aid.
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Around 490 BCE
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- Persian invasions of Greece (499 BCE)
- Gautama Buddha (563 BCE)
- Achaemenid Persian Empire (550 BCE)
- Confucius (551 BCE)
- Plato (428 BCE)
- Roman Republic founded (509 BCE)
- Cleisthenes' reforms (508 BCE)
- Mahabharata (400 BCE)
- Socrates (469 BCE)