The Battle of Marathon

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Across
  1. 3. Someone who is sent to deliver a message
  2. 5. Symbol of goddess Athena
  3. 10. One of several Athenian generals
  4. 13. This army led by King Darius I greatly outnumbered the Greeks
  5. 14. Tried to help the Ionians fight Darius
  6. 15. The Greek army beat the Persian army in this battle
  7. 17. Olive branches symbolized this in Greek culture
  8. 18. Greek historian who wrote about Pheidippides running to Sparta and back
  9. 19. Shape of the moon added to the tetradrachma
Down
  1. 1. The fastest runner around who could deliver news of the Greek victory
  2. 2. Name of English poet who wrote "Pheidippides" in 1879
  3. 4. What Pheidippides died of when he announced their victory
  4. 6. Another Greek writer of the second century
  5. 7. A Greek writer of the second century
  6. 8. 26 mile foot race
  7. 9. A favorite coin of the Athenians
  8. 11. Country on the coast of Turkey
  9. 12. Persian king
  10. 16. This army charged the Persian army aggressively
  11. 17. The phase of the moon in the shape of a crescent