Pheidippides was a legendary Greek courier who, by one account, ran 40 km (about 25 miles) from the battlefield at Marathon to Athens to report the Greeks’ victory over Persian invaders. His feat inspired the modern marathon race. In another account, he ran the much longer distance from Athens to Sparta and back.
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