02-08-2006, 03:49 PM
The accounts of the battle at Marathon tell of a boy who was killed by a Persian arrow while bringing water to the warriors. Maybe that's the one whose bones were found under that tumulus.
Incidentally: building a modern "olympic" games structure on the site of the battle of Marathon is nothing but sacrilegous, I think.
I found a very,very excellent site on the battle at Marathon..It's there:
http://www.mcm.aueb.gr/ment/spetses/lym ... isuals.htm
Incidentally: building a modern "olympic" games structure on the site of the battle of Marathon is nothing but sacrilegous, I think.
I found a very,very excellent site on the battle at Marathon..It's there:
http://www.mcm.aueb.gr/ment/spetses/lym ... isuals.htm
Pascal Sabas