One possible re-creation of the infantry formations at Marathon. via Wikimedia Commons 
A Greek helment, and its occupant, uncovered from the Marathon battlefield. Now in the Royal Ontario Museum. via Wikimedia Commons 
The burial mound (tumulus) housing the ashes of the Athenian dead at Marathon. via Wikimedia Commons 
“Scene of the Battle of Marathon” by John Steeple Davis, 1900.
Nearly a decade after Aristagoras first went into revolt, and longer since the Athenians had reneged on their offerings of earth and water, the Persian Army came to take Darius’ revenge on Athens. For the first time, a Persian army landed on the Greek mainland. They made their camp on an unremarkable open plain that would soon be seared into Greek history forever: Marathon.
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