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<blockquote data-quote="pickup" data-source="post: 926269"><p>Just look at the origin of the Marathon and you might have an answer?:</p><p></p><p>The name <em>Marathon</em> comes from the legend of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pheidippides" target="_blank">Pheidippides</a>, a Greek messenger. The legend states that he was sent from the battlefield of<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathon,_Greece" target="_blank">Marathon</a> to Athens to announce that the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Empire" target="_blank">Persians</a> had been defeated in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Marathon" target="_blank">Battle of Marathon</a> (in which he had just fought),[SUP]<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathon#cite_note-galloway-2" target="_blank">[3]</a>[/SUP] which took place in August or September, 490 BC.[SUP]<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathon#cite_note-date-3" target="_blank">[4]</a>[/SUP] It is said that he ran the entire distance without stopping and burst into the assembly, exclaiming "Νενικήκαμεν" (Nenikékamen, 'We have won.') before collapsing and dying.[SUP]<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathon#cite_note-4" target="_blank">[5]</a>[/SUP] The account of the run from Marathon to Athens first appears in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutarch" target="_blank">Plutarch</a>'s <em>On the Glory of Athens</em> in the 1st century AD which quotes from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraclides_Ponticus" target="_blank">Heraclides Ponticus</a>'s lost work, giving the runner's name as either Thersipus of Erchius or Eucles.[SUP]<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathon#cite_note-5" target="_blank">[6]</a>[/SUP] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucian_of_Samosata" target="_blank">Lucian of Samosata</a> (2nd century AD) also gives the story but names the runner Philippides (not Pheidippides).[SUP]<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathon#cite_note-6" target="_blank">[7]</a>[/SUP]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pickup, post: 926269"] Just look at the origin of the Marathon and you might have an answer?: The name [I]Marathon[/I] comes from the legend of [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pheidippides"]Pheidippides[/URL], a Greek messenger. The legend states that he was sent from the battlefield of[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathon,_Greece"]Marathon[/URL] to Athens to announce that the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Empire"]Persians[/URL] had been defeated in the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Marathon"]Battle of Marathon[/URL] (in which he had just fought),[SUP][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathon#cite_note-galloway-2"][3][/URL][/SUP] which took place in August or September, 490 BC.[SUP][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathon#cite_note-date-3"][4][/URL][/SUP] It is said that he ran the entire distance without stopping and burst into the assembly, exclaiming "Νενικήκαμεν" (Nenikékamen, 'We have won.') before collapsing and dying.[SUP][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathon#cite_note-4"][5][/URL][/SUP] The account of the run from Marathon to Athens first appears in [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutarch"]Plutarch[/URL]'s [I]On the Glory of Athens[/I] in the 1st century AD which quotes from [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraclides_Ponticus"]Heraclides Ponticus[/URL]'s lost work, giving the runner's name as either Thersipus of Erchius or Eucles.[SUP][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathon#cite_note-5"][6][/URL][/SUP] [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucian_of_Samosata"]Lucian of Samosata[/URL] (2nd century AD) also gives the story but names the runner Philippides (not Pheidippides).[SUP][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathon#cite_note-6"][7][/URL][/SUP] [/QUOTE]
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