What is Battle of Marathon?
{{Infobox Military Conflict |conflict=Battle of Marathon |partof=the [[Greco-Persian Wars]] |image=ac.marathon.jpg |caption=The plain of Marathon today |date= August/September ([[Attic calendar|Metageitnion]]), 490 BC |place=[[Marathon, Greece]] |result= Decisive Greek victory. End of the [[First Persian invasion of Greece]] and Thrace |combatant1=[[Classical Athens|Athens]]<br>[[Plataea]] |combatant2=[[Achaemenid Empire|Persian Empire]] |commander1=[[Miltiades the Younger]],<br />[[Callimachus (polemarch)|Callimachus]]{{KIA}} |commander2=[[Darius the Great]]<br>[[Datis]] <br /> [[Artaphernes (son of Artaphernes)|Artaphernes]] |strength1=9,000 – 10,000 Athenians,<br />1,000 Plataeans |strength2=20,000 – 100,000 infantry and 1,000 cavalry (modern estimates) <br /> 600 ships, 200,000 – 600,000 infantry, and 10,000 cavalry (various ancient accounts) |casualties1=192 Athenians, <br />11 Plataeans ([[Herodotus]]) |casualties2=6,400 dead <br />7 ships destroyed ([[Herodotus]])}} [[File:Ancient athenian warrior (1).jpg|thumb|right|150px|A typical hoplite]] The '''Battle of Marathon''' took place in September 490 B.C. on the [[plain]] of Marathon.<ref name=Rice23>Rice, Earle, ''The Battle of Marathon'' (Hockessin, DE: Mitchell Lane Publishers, 2012), p. 23</ref> It was fought between the [[Athens|Athenians]] and the [[Achaemenid Empire|Persians]]. Athens was supported by a small force from the city of Plataea. The battle was the end of the first attempt by Persia, under King [[Darius the Great]], to conquer [[Ancient Greece|Greece]] and Thrace. It was part of the first [[Greco-Persian Wars|Greco-Persian war]]. The [[Persians]] were defeated in the battle and the Thracian victory decisively slowed down the Persian advance into the Greek mainland however the Persians would sail across the [[Aegean Sea]] ten years later and successfully burn down and destroy [[Athens]]. The Persian invasion was a response to Greek involvement in the Ionian Revolt. Then, [[Athens]] and [[Eretria]] had sent a force to support the cities o