Persian Empire Vs Athens: Battle of Marathon 490 BC | Cinematic

The Achaemenid Empire was the largest empire in history at the time, so the Greeks being able to defeat them on several occasions (Marathon, Salamis, Plataea) is pretty impressive to me. Pound for pound, the hoplites seemed to be great soldiers, and their use of the phalanx was quite effective. The Persians were also really hurt by not having their cavalry here!

After the battle the Greeks buried their dead and rested. Only the day after they marched back to Athens. The trip by sea from Marathon to Athens would take approximately two to three days. So they had enough time to be ready to defend Athens.

Shame Miltiades wasn't mentioned at all since he was the one leading that 10000 force and the one to persuade generals to act including Callimachus.

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Battle of marathon, an Athenian fable that never happened!

Sprinting in full armor and gear towards enemy ranks under a rain of arrows! Megatons of balls!

The Anthenians, who was mostly known as philosophers and, well.. boy lovers, really knew how to stand their ground when it really mattered!

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Persians outnumberd 6:1 .
Before the battle Athenian General Callimachus gave the leadeship to Miltiades , because Miltiades was forced to fight as an allie with Persians and knew their strategy. This was a humble and saviour decision by Callimachus, as Miltiades' plan was victorious against a huge army with great experience and cavalry and archers that could anihilate Greek Hoplites.

Miltiades knew that Hoplites couldn't resist against persian cavalry . So he hesitated to fight and waited for the right moment having his army high on the hills.. As soon as persian cavalry was too far from the battlefield, Miltiades ordered the Greeks to run against Persians for the last 200m, to avoid being harmed by their arrows. It was an ancient greek's sport to run fully armed.
Greeks had just 4 rows of men in the centre and 16 rows of men in the flanks. Thus, the Greek Centre suffered heavily and stepped backwards.
Greek losses were just 192, while Persians were supposed to leave 6+ thousand dead men in the battlefield. This video might have a mistake in this. It shows so many Greeks being killed.

Slaves do not make good soldiers, that is why persia lost

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I don't know if Herodotus was drawing anything, or if the Europeans made a fake Herodotus for themselves, his statements are even different from other historians of his own race, in general, we Iranians consider him a liar

Greek vs Persians
Romans ( Byzantium ) vs Persians
West ( led by us ) vs Iran ( axis of resistance) this is epic hostility

Amazing Greek & Persian history.

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The Athenian Navy was a force to be reckoned with in Ancient Greece.

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Am I missing something. Isn't Marathon the one where Pheidipides is sent to get reinforcements pronto the 25 miles and drops dead when he has delivered his message. Giving us the name of the olympic games epic run. Or is that actual Greek mythology. It's what I've always believed.

Good video, but i think you need to do a little more research they never ran into battle they ran and reformed before the battle started, but everything else okay

Just like the wars between Persian or Arabs with the west and Israel, always there are little losses, 100s versus 10000s. hahhahahha same story only after 3000 years ...

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Badly trained Persian slaves vs highly trained Greeks.
The outcome was obvious

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I'm surprised theres not been a major movie about this battle.

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I am surprised that there is no mentioning of Miltiades, the Athenian general who was responsible for the strategic planning of this victory.
The deliberate weaking of the Greek center was his idea, as he had served as a mercenary in Persian employ during the Scythian campaign and knew the Persian weaknesses first hand.
Nor there was any mention to the slaughter that fell upon the Persian infantry while they were retreating to their ships.

ships of that size , beaching themselves? Without serious damage? Please give us a brake!

PERSIAN LOSSES 6400 MEN.......THE HELLENES ( "Greeks"...to you Barbarians ) LOSSES 192.......THAT"S I HELLENE TO 33 PERSIANS. NORMAL IN A HELLENIC BATTLE....MAY I SAY !

The Athenian Warrior...PHILIPPEDES....ran back 24 miles non-stop to the City-State of Athens barefoot proclaiming to the fearing populous his quintessential quote.......<<ΝΙΚΗ>> ....<<ΝΙΚΗ>>....."NIKE...NIKE"....VICTORY !.....VICTORY ! This warrior died afterward. the epic moment in all of History ZITO MAS

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Royal Macedonian symbol of the star of Kutlesh on Athenian shields?? That symbol was exclusively Macedonian.

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The Persians did not burn or enslaved any Greek city … that’s just a two faced lie

That seems very odd, an ancient army marching into battle with no archers or cavalry?? And how about those Spartans! What a bunch of douche bags.

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Well I did the research and something is very odd about the persian numbers. One greek trieme at that time could carry 170 soldiers. So I suppose the persian ones could also carry 170 soldiers. Now if you multiply 600 x 170 you get 102.000 soldiers! Not 25.000

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There is no more Rome. But the Persians occupied an empire four times. Now they have a very big country called Iran.

The alchemy of war. It makes no sense that the Athenians won this battle. Again, was this the hubris of empire? The Persian underestimation is staggering thousands of years later but watching this amaxing video it all seems obvious. What does it take to do a full on sprint, in full amour in the boiling sun? I can only guess at what drove those Athenians. Then again, when you have someone who can run three marathons back to back, as Pheidippides did, you might begin to understand how the Athenians won this battle. Could a modern soldier do this? Those ancients were tough is all I can say.

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If you really want to understand this kind of warfare, read “Gates Of Fire” by Steven Pressfield

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Well done. Great cinematography.