The First Marathon: The Legend of Pheidippides
Book Details
Author(s)
Susan Reynolds
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN / ASIN
0807508675
ISBN-13
9780807508671
Availability
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Sales Rank
#1,023,308
Marketplace
United States 🇺🇸
Description
Twenty-five hundred years ago Greek soldiers faced the Persian army on the plain of Marathon. Pheidippides ran to neighboring Sparta, 140 miles away, to ask for the Spartans' aid. Afterwards he sped back to the battle, where he helped defeat the enemy.
