The Battle of Marathon 490 BC How 10,000 Greeks Defeated the Persian Empire

In September 490 BC, a vastly outnumbered army of 10,000 Athenian citizen-soldiers stood alone against the mighty Persian Empire at the Bay of Marathon. With Sparta bound by religious law and refusing to send reinforcements, General Miltiades executed a desperate and unprecedented tactical gamble: a full sprint into a deadly hail of arrows.

This is the epic true story of the Battle of Marathon—the brutal clash of bronze and wicker, the legendary run of Pheidippides, and the monumental victory that changed the course of Western civilization forever.#BattleOfMarathon #AncientGreece #PersianEmpire #MilitaryHistory #HistoryDocumentary #EpicBattles #Athens #Sparta #GrecoPersianWars #AncientWarfare