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The story of a Greek herald sprinting from Marathon to Athens to announce victory over the Persians, then dropping dead, appears nowhere in Herodotus's near-contemporary account of…
— Herodotus (earliest source); later embellished by Plutarch and Lucian, Pheidippides
Facing a Persian fleet several times its size, the outnumbered Greek navy under Themistocles tricked King Xerxes into funneling his ships into the cramped Strait of Salamis in 480 …
— Herodotus, The Histories