Hundreds of people will take to the streets of Parkersburg on Aug. 16 to take part in the yearly News and Sentinel Half ...

When the Persian army landed at Marathon in 490 BC ... in the middle of a religious festival that forbade mobilization for war during its celebrations. When at last the Spartans set off for ...

ISBN: 0199747326 As the primary source of the Graeco-Persian Wars, the historian, Herodotus of Halicarnassus ... the charge of the Greek hoplites through the hail of Persian arrows on the plain of ...

When the Persian army landed at Marathon in 490 BC ... in the middle of a religious festival that forbade mobilization for war during its celebrations. When at last the Spartans set off for ...