Editing Pheidippides (section)

{{Short description|490 BC Greek runner from Marathon to Athens}}
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{{Infobox person
| name   = Pheidippides
| image = Statue of Pheidippides along the Marathon Road.jpg
| image_size     = 251px
| caption = Statue of Pheidippides alongside the Marathon Road
| birth_date  = {{circa|530&nbsp;BC}}
| birth_place = [[Athens]]
| death_date  = {{circa|490&nbsp;BC}} (aged {{circa|40}})
| death_place = [[Athens]]
| parents        =
| children       =
}}

'''Pheidippides''' ({{langx|grc|Φειδιππίδης}}, {{IPA|grc|pʰeː.dip.pí.dɛːs|link=yes}}, {{IPA|el|fi.ðiˈpi.ðis|label=[[Modern Greek]]:}} {{lit|Son of Pheídippos}}) or '''Philippides''' ({{lang|grc|Φιλιππίδης}}) is the central figure in the story that inspired the [[marathon race]]. Pheidippides is said to have run {{convert|40|km|mi}} from [[Marathon, Greece|Marathon]] to [[Athens]] to deliver news of the victory of the [[Battle of Marathon]], and, according to [[Herodotus]], to have run from Athens to [[Sparta]]. This latter feat also inspired two [[ultramarathon]] races, the {{convert|246|km|mi|adj=on}} [[Spartathlon]] and {{convert|490|km|mi|adj=on}} Authentic Pheidippides Run.

[[File:Phidippides.jpg|thumb|Painting of Pheidippides as he gave word of the Greek victory over [[Persia]] at the [[Battle of Marathon]] to the people of Athens. {{nowrap|— [[Luc-Olivier Merson]]}} (1869) ]]