The Most Important Battle in History: The Battle of Marathon | EP 2

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  @GenericSock · 4 months ago

  As somebody who can't afford a TRIH subscription (much as I'd love one), I really appreciate that they chose to make their subscription paywall model "Before anybody else!" (mostly), rather than paywalling the whole lot. Somebody has to pay for all the fantastic animations, but TRIH also have also given away an avalanche of free content and everyone wins.

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  @GeorgioG-c1q · 4 months ago

  To the best of my knowledge, this vote by the citizens of Athens in Pnyx to face the Persians in battle is the last time in history that citizens actually vote to go to war. In fact, after they vote, these same people have a few hours to go home to prepare, kiss their families, and go! <br>Think about this for a minute. It is not a parliament that votes for the army to go to war. It is about 10000 citizens in Pnyx voting themselves to go to war against the superpower of their time. It is incredibly heroic!

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  @marcusw210 · 4 months ago

  Miltiades: “Pheidippides, did you bring Sparta?” <br>Pheidippides: “Well, not exactly, but I did bring a screaming goat-god.”

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• PA

  @Panos__ · 4 months ago

  Listening to the history of marathon actually from Μαραθώνας

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• QW

  @qwerty2299-n7z · 4 months ago

  Marathon...<br>A whisper in the summer wind that just refuses to fade

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• TY

  @TylerMcF08 · 4 months ago

  This man is such an exceptional narrator. He knows how to perfectly draw out emotion in his narrative.

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• KO

  @kosfras4719 · 4 months ago

  Ο Ηρόδοτος δίνει μια άλλη διάσταση στον άγνωστο αυτόν πολεμιστή και το όπλο του,[8] περιγράφει λοιπόν ότι στην μάχη του Μαραθώνα σκοτώθηκαν 6.400 Πέρσες και 192 Αθηναίοι. Κατά την διάρκεια της συγκρούσεως συνέβη κάτι πολύ παράξενο, ένας Αθηναίος στρατιώτης, ο Επίζηλος, γιος του Κουφαγόρα, ενώ πολεμούσε γενναία στήθος με στήθος ξαφνικά έχασε την όραση του και στα δύο του μάτια, παρόλο που δεν τον είχε ακουμπήσει τίποτα, ούτε δόρυ ούτε ξίφος ούτε βέλος τόξου. Συνεχίζοντας ο Ηρόδοτος αναφέρει ότι ο Επίζηλος διηγείται ότι είδε έναν μεγαλόσωμο οπλίτη που η γενειάδα του κάλυπτε ολόκληρη την ασπίδα του, και ότι αυτό το φάντασμα κρατούσε στα χέρια του ένα πολύ φωτεινό όπλο. Πέρασε ακριβώς δίπλα του, σκοτώνοντας Πέρσες αντιπάλους και αυτή η σκηνή ήταν η τελευταία που είδε ο Επίζηλος γιατί από κάποια υπερβολική λάμψη, τυφλώθηκε. Οι Αθηναίοι ρώτησαν το Μαντείο των Δελφών να μάθουν ποιος ήταν ο άγνωστος ήρωας που πολέμησε μαζί τους και το Μαντείο τους έδωσε την απάντηση πως έπρεπε να τιμούν τον ήρωα Εχετλαίο

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• AN

  @anelkistir · 4 months ago

  The beacon &nbsp;system for communication called &quot; &nbsp;the &nbsp;Phryctoriae System &quot; &nbsp;. I hike regularly &nbsp;around Athens . I have seen &nbsp;some of the beacons towers &nbsp; &nbsp;, for example &quot; Phryktoria Tower Loimiko &quot; &nbsp;,

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• EA

  @eageredward · 1 month ago (edited)

  3 min in and he&apos;s already spoiled the ending, Tom Holland how could you!? :0

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• DA

  @DanDataEngineer · 4 months ago

  This episode needed some maps and animation

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  @iliasmastoris529 · 4 months ago

  I was at Olympia recently, and saw the helmets (One Greek the other Persian) from Marathon devoted by Miltiades to Zeus. The Greek helmet had taken a seripus blow to the crown.

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• MI

  @mikem-t9o · 4 months ago

  A detail to add to the drama of the war council where Miltiades tries to persuade Callimachus with this incredible plea that Herodotus describes. As the council is split, Miltiades turns to Callimachus with the iconic phrase &apos;Πάταξον με, άκουσον δε&apos; which - still used in modern &nbsp;greek - translates to &apos;Strike me, but listen to me&apos; or more loosely &apos;hear me out even if you want to knock me down for saying it&apos;. A direct appeal that goes to show Miltiades&apos; confidence right before a possibly suicide decision, while still acknowledging his sketchy perception among the Athenians. Tremendous rhetoric and a phrase that still survives encapsulating the drama of the battle and its generals.

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