The core legend tells of Pheidippides running from Marathon to Athens after the Greek victory over Persia. However, the historian Herodotus, writing closest to the event, describes a different, even more astonishing feat: a ~150-mile~ round-trip run to Sparta before the battle to request aid. The more famous story of the messenger dying after announcing 'We have won!' comes from later Roman-era writers like Lucian. Regardless of its historical accuracy, this powerful tale of endurance and sacrif