West Civ Class 3/5/13

Well I guess I forgot to do my blog yesterday because i was to busy monitoring the weather for the 5 hours I was home. However I'm still going to post what we did in case Mr. Schick decides to give half credit anyway. So in class yesterday we watched more of The Greeks and this time covered the Persian invasion at Marathon. From where the Persians landed at Marathon to Athens was 26.3 miles which inspired the modern marathon to be 26.3 miles. However a longer distance would be run during that battle by Phidipidies  who ran 120 miles in 2 days from Athens to Sparta to ask for help which was rejected. Rumor has it that Pidipidies died on the way back and was never seen again.