The Headlong God of War:: A Tale of Ancient Greece and the Battle of Marathon

September 11—a strike force has been launched against one of western civilization’s great centers of culture and trade. Funded by the most powerful man in the Middle East and carried out by his trusted lieutenants, this attack is intended to bring an end to western democracy… This is not the attack on the Twin Towers or the Pentagon in the U.S., but the invasion of Europe by the Persian Empire in 490 B.C. On a narrow plain that sweeps down to the Bay of Marathon in Greece, citizens of the world’s first democracy will make a desperate stand against the greatest power of the ancient world.