Battle o Marathon

Battle o Marathon
Pairt o the Greco-Persie Wars
The plain o Marathon today
Date August/September (Metageitnion), 490 BC Location Marathon, Greece 38.129426°N 23.974714°E / 38.129426; 23.974714 Result Decisive Greek victory Persie forces driven oot o Greece for 10 years.
Belligerents
Athens, Plataea	Persie Empire
Commanders an leaders
Miltiades Callimachus † Aristides the Juist Xanthippus (Pericles' faither) Themistokles Stesilaos † Arimnestos	Datis Artaphernes Hippias (deposed Athenian tyrant)
Strenth
9,000–10,000 Athenians, 1,000 Plataeans	25,000 infantry an 1,000 cavalry (modren estimates) 100,000+ airmed oarsmen an sailors (arranged as reserve truips thay saw little action, maistly defendin the ships) 600 triremes 50+ horse-carriers 200+ supply ships
Casualties an losses
192 Athenians, 11 Plataeans (Herodotus) 1,000–3,000 deid (modren estimates)	6,400 deid 7 ships destroyed (Herodotus) 4,000–5,000 deid (modren estimates)
Location o the battle o Marathon

The Battle o Marathon (Greek: Μάχη τοῦ Μαραθῶνος, Machē tou Marathōnos) teuk place in 490 BC, during the first Persie invasion o Greece. It wis focht atween the ceetizens o Athens, aidit bi Plataea, an a Persie force commandit bi Datis an Artaphernes. The battle wis the culmination o the first attempt bi Persie, unner Keeng Darius I, tae subjugate Greece. The Greek airmy decisively defeatit the mair numerous Persies, merkin a turnin pynt in the Greco-Persie Wars.