02-08-2006, 04:35 PM
Quote:Incidentally: building a modern "olympic" games structure on the site of the battle of Marathon is nothing but sacrilegous, I think.It's not that bad, actually.
Here you see a map of the battle:
[url:2o2x7wmf]http://www.mcm.aueb.gr/ment/spetses/lymperopoulos/pw_cont16_hk2.htm[/url]
The Olympic rowing course runs more or less N-S near the "m" of "marshe". Google Earth is quite helpful (38 07' 04" N 53 58'42" E shows the tomb of the Athenians).