Did the ancient Greek soldier Pheidippides actually run the distance from Athens to Sparta and back — not just from Marathon to Athens? Credit: MatthiasKabel/Wikimedia Commons/ Creative Commons ...

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The map below shows the location of Sparta and Athens. The blue line represents the straight line joining these two place. The distance shown is the straight line or the air travel distance between ...

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