Marathon
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Tip o’ the pileus to Atticus Cox who found this on the Uncyclopedia: Source (the top-selling board game of the 5th century B.C.E. …)
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As long as I’m poking around their archives, here’s a couple more podcasts of interest from ABC Tasmania (I haven’t listened to these, but I’m assuming — as in previous forays — the player might not work, but the download does): Julius Caesar and the ides of March. (Geoff Adams) Marathon and how it changed…
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I’m semi-surprised there hasn’t been a bit more hype for this upcoming anniversary … I know they’re planning a number of ongoing events at Oxford, but really haven’t heard much else. This item comes from Reuters: Exactly two and a half millennia after the Battle of Marathon, an event widely acknowledged to have ensured the…