Tuesday, July 21, 2009
So our last historical site was the site of the Battle of Marathon. This is where the Athenians fought off the Persian 10 years prior to Thermopylae. The Athenians won decisively.
They discovered the burial mound where the slain athenians were buried. A small park surrounds this and the battle field.
The general Miltiades (above) whose helmet from this very battle we saw in the Olympia museum, he had offered it up to Zeus in Olympia:
