A MESENGER REMEMBERED

You have all heard about marathon race, in which the participant run across very long distance. The game was first held to honour the memory of ancient Greek soldier, who made a heroic long distance run just to communicate a message. It happened in B.C. 490. In that year Greece fought with Persia were miraculously defeated by the comparatively Greek army. A Greek soldier named Pheidippider was sent from Marathon to Athens to announce the victory. It is said that he ran the entire distance of 40km with out stopping, but moments after proclaiming his message to city he collapsed dead, from exhaustion.