Pheidippides
Legendary Greek runner from Marathon to Athens in 490 BC
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The runner whose final sprint gave birth to the marathon. Pheidippides collapsed and died seconds after announcing Athens's victory over Persia in 490 BC — at least according to later legend — and that fatal dash became the template for every 26-mile race since.
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Pheidippides was a 5th-century-BC Athenian courier whose long-distance runs before and after the Battle of Marathon became the stuff of contested legend. Herodotus, the earliest source, recorded only that Pheidippides ran roughly 240 kilometers from Athens to Sparta and back to seek help against the invading Persians; he said nothing about the runner fighting in the battle or dying. Centuries later, the satirist Lucian introduced a different version: a shorter Marathon-to-Athens sprint to deliver news of victory, ending in Pheidippides's immediate death — a detail scholars consider a romantic…
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