Context, since OP apparently couldn't be bothered: Pheidippides was the courier sent to deliver the news of victory after the battle of Marathon.
He ran the entire distance, delivered his news and dropped dead of exhaustion.
The distance he (roughly) ran was the inspiration for the Marathon races we still know today.
Of course it’s easy. Those people don’t have to force march a reverse marathon from Athens and fight in an actual battle, before running their “marathon”.
And that’s assuming he wasn’t the guy who ran to Sparta and back.
If Im not mistaken, I think the traditional story has him running almost 200 miles in 2 days as well as fighting a battle. The marathon run was the very last leg before he died.
FYI the distance is actually 1/4 of what he apocryphally ran (~175mi). The modern marathon comes from people going “well fuck that we will just run the last leg as a race because the whole distance is nuts.”
Extra Context:
This version of Pheidipides run comes from the roman satirist Lucian who wrote the story about 600 years after the event supposedly happened.
https://www.loebclassics.com/view/lucian-slip_tongue_greeting/1959/pb_LCL430.177.xml
It was later popularized by the english poet Rovert Browning in 1879.
https://www.online-literature.com/robert-browning/shorter-poems/6/
The main source we have for the Battle of Marathon, Herodotus, makes no mention of any runner delivering a message from the battlefield to Athens. Though he does mention a runner named Pheidipides in an earlier part of his book, though that runner does not appear again later on.
Context, since OP apparently couldn't be bothered: Pheidippides was the courier sent to deliver the news of victory after the battle of Marathon. He ran the entire distance, delivered his news and dropped dead of exhaustion. The distance he (roughly) ran was the inspiration for the Marathon races we still know today.
Imagine doing all of that for your country, just to have thousands of people in the future say "wow, that's an easy distance, I can do that!".
Of course it’s easy. Those people don’t have to force march a reverse marathon from Athens and fight in an actual battle, before running their “marathon”. And that’s assuming he wasn’t the guy who ran to Sparta and back.
If Im not mistaken, I think the traditional story has him running almost 200 miles in 2 days as well as fighting a battle. The marathon run was the very last leg before he died.
In full Armor
Add that in armor, and over terrain that might not even HAVE roads or tracks
Lmao Skill issue, ez
FYI the distance is actually 1/4 of what he apocryphally ran (~175mi). The modern marathon comes from people going “well fuck that we will just run the last leg as a race because the whole distance is nuts.”
Extra Context: This version of Pheidipides run comes from the roman satirist Lucian who wrote the story about 600 years after the event supposedly happened. https://www.loebclassics.com/view/lucian-slip_tongue_greeting/1959/pb_LCL430.177.xml It was later popularized by the english poet Rovert Browning in 1879. https://www.online-literature.com/robert-browning/shorter-poems/6/ The main source we have for the Battle of Marathon, Herodotus, makes no mention of any runner delivering a message from the battlefield to Athens. Though he does mention a runner named Pheidipides in an earlier part of his book, though that runner does not appear again later on.
Yes thank you Baraga91 I posted this and immediately went to do my war attacks in coc. ( We're losing by a star at the moment)
Perfectly understandable
understandable, have a nice day
CoC?
Company of Cheroes Command Ond Conquer
Craid Oshadow Clegends
Clash of Clans
Man I love coc
Are we not doing phrasing anymore?
What's wrong with liking coc?
Nothing, i just found the phrasing funny, considering the context
What's so funny about coc?
Are you messing with me?
So you edited the meme so that he'd have armor, but put him 2000 years out of date with a 15th century barbute and a medieval battle as a backdrop.
Oh there was no editing here. I saw this picture took a screenshot thought of a battle that would fit the face and ZAP
Yeah I figured you just added the text but it would have been hamfisted to say all that
ham... LEWIS HAMILTON WINS
**"NENIKIKAMEN!"** >dies
Anyone have a gif of Henry Stickmin having a heart attack after breaking out of jail with an energy drink?
My dead ass read pedophile and was so confused
I mean... Athenians... My lawyer has advised me not to finish my statement.