What has the event shown led to?Answer: The painting shows Phillipides, an Athenian herald who supposedly ran 240 kms in 2 days between Greece and Sparaa and then a further 40 km from Marathon to Athens to convey the news of a Greek victory over the invading Persian army (with the famous word Nenikekamen) before dying of exhaustion. The marathon race was inspired by this possibly apocryphal story. Rithwik, P and Srivats got it without the added hint while Rajesh, AJ, Corina, Manix, Jaggi and Arvind needed the sports connection to figure it out. Well done all.
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Marathon
---------Rithwik
marathon
The Marathon
marathon races
The Marathon.
painting by Luc-Olivier Merson.
Gymnopaedia?
podium?
Ancient Olympics
The Marathon Messenger?
Pheidippides - inspiration for the Marathon
Marathon race, the sports hint helped.
The soldier of Marathon, Luc-Olivier Merson, 1869, portraying the popular legend that Pheidippides ran from Marathon to Athens. The story became the basis for the modern marathon athletics event.
Marathon
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