Oi Persians are approaching the Attic land and Athens must ask for help from the Spartans. The marcher Pheidippides is ordered to run to Sparta and return in about three days to Marathon, a distance of five hundred and forty kilometers. He takes part in the battle and is then ordered to run again (!) to Athens, in order to announce the message of victory. He is the first Marathon runner in history! And since then, Pheidippides has been running in every city on the planet where a Marathon Road of forty-two kilometers is held, and let his beloved Athens not be his destination. It runs, every time the Spartan race is held, from the Holy Rock of the Acropolis in Athens to Sparta, two hundred and fifty kilometers long! It runs every time a runner trains, mornings, nights, afternoons, on any pavement, asphalt or trail, in heat, cold, snow or rain. Pheidippides arrives in Athens and drinks the wine of immortality. I was a child!
"Nenikikamen" (e-Book)
The story of Pheidippides, the first Marathon runner
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Petros Pourliakas was born in 1969 in Kastoria, originally from the mountain village of Vlasti. He served in the Special Forces of the Greek Army as a Commando Paratrooper. He is the pioneer and initiator of the Diaplos of the Aegean Seas with inflatable boats, which from 1994 until today (Aegean Team) offer voluntary medical and social services to the islanders with enormous success. He crossed the Mediterranean and the Atlantic Ocean with a crew of six on a four-month voyage from Piraeus to America in a twelve-meter sailing vessel, with the sole use of sails in the Ocean. He is a helicopter pilot. He has traveled by all means to over seventy countries around the Earth. He is a runner of mountain and asphalt distances with "hypocritical" abandonments and modest finishes in many races, such as the 163 km. in the mountains of Rhodope, in Euchideio Athlos 107 km., in Dolichos 257 km. and other races, small and large, marathons and ultramarathons. Other publications: Poetry collection "Breaths" (1996), private publication, and "Beyond the Columns" (2004), published by Livani.
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| Writer | Petros Pourliakas |
|---|---|
| Size | digital book – ebook |
| Writer | |
| Publisher | Source Publications |
| ebook ISBN | 978-960-626-243-2 |
| ebook Edition | May 2020 |
Angeliki Papadopoulou -
I had the pleasure and honor to translate the book into English. I was captivated by the narration of the life of Fideippides through the smooth style of Petros Pourliakas, and I was moved by the feeling that I knew the hero personally. It's really worth it.