The Battle of Marathon

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Across
  1. 4. Greek historian who wrote about Pheidippides
  2. 8. words Pheidippides said when he arrived in Athens
  3. 9. a foot race of about 26 miles
  4. 13. Persians could've used these to sneak and attack Athens
  5. 17. wrote a poem about Pheidippides in 1879
  6. 18. the group Darius wanted to punish
  7. 19. Herodotus said they all ran 26 miles
  8. 20. only lost 200 men in the battle
Down
  1. 1. The number of miles Pheidippides ran
  2. 2. running messenger sent to tell Athens of the victory
  3. 3. 25 miles from the battle at Marathon
  4. 5. Pheidippides fate after running 26 miles
  5. 6. symbol of the goddess Athena
  6. 7. symbol added to the tetradrachma to honor the battle
  7. 10. symbol the represented wealth
  8. 11. the Persian king of the Achaemenid dynasty
  9. 12. one of the countries Darius I wanted to conquer
  10. 14. greatly outnumbered the Greek army
  11. 15. a popular Greek coin
  12. 16. the result for Darius and the Persian army at the battle of Marathon