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	SparkNotes: The Clouds: Plot Overview
		Strepsiades, the father of spend-thrift Pheidippides, cannot sleep because he is worried about the debts that he has incurred because of Pheidippides's expensive passion for racehorses.
		Strepsiades begs Pheidippides to refrain from his expensive ways and begs him to enroll in the new-fangled school next door wherein he may learn about esoteric natural sciences as well as sophistry that might help him outwit their creditors in court.
		Socrates promises that Pheidippides is well-versed in their special brand of specious learning which Pheidippides soon demonstrates when he attacks the idiom the day of "Old and New" as an instance of hysterical paradox.
	www.sparknotes.com /drama/theclouds/summary.html (817 words)

	The Clouds
		Pheidippides arrives at the Thinkery, and two of Socrates' other students stage a debate for him to encourage him to study there.
		Pheidippides agrees to study the new logic at the Thinkery, and Strepsiades learns that the Clouds never existed in the first place.
		Pheidippides has learned a loophole that will let his father escape from their debts, but he also has learned that he doesn't need to respect his father, and proceeds to explain to his father why it is all right for Pheidippides to strike him.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/th/The_Clouds.html (523 words)

	Kitsos on Pheidippides (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It was late August towards the beginning of September in 490 BC, when the long-distance runner Pheidippides was called upon by the Athenians to run as fast as possible to Sparta to ask for military aid to help combat the Persians who had just landed in their thousands on the beaches of Marathon.
		Before Pheidippides began, he stopped by his house, somewhere in Colonos, to take with him a flask of water, some figs, and a pair of sandals.
		Pheidippides nodded to acknowledge that he understood the message (for he knew that it would be useless to argue with the Lacedaemonians), saluted the Senators and exited.
	www.grecoreport.com /pheidippides.htm (803 words)

	Pheidippides paid the price for day in the sun - Athletics -
		Pheidippides, the Greek courier who ran the first marathon 2500 years ago, died of a heart attack, 19th century English poet Robert Browning wrote.
		In his poem, Pheidippides, Browning refers to the ecstasy and agony of the runner carrying to Athens news of the Greeks' victory over the Persians at the Battle of Marathon.
		Pheidippides would not have had lightweight shorts, running shoes which weigh as much as airplane slippers, shirts with more air holes than fibre or sunglasses.
	www.smh.com.au /olympics/articles/2004/08/27/1093518093468.html?from=moreStories (810 words)

	Scholars Aim to Change Date of Historic Marathon Run
		That is the conclusion of a group of astronomers who base their conclusions on research incorporating the writings of Herodotus and the lunar charts of Sparta.
		Pheidippides was an excellent runner, which was why he was chosen for the important task.
		So if Pheidippides ran his historic marathon in the heat of an August day, then it is perfectly plausible that he collapsed and died of heat stroke or of heat exhaustion.
	www.socialstudiesforkids.com /articles/currentevents/marathondatechange.htm (516 words)

	1mar5.htm
		There is a modern bronze statue of Pheidippides in the town of Rafina (alongside the Marathon Road) and the Athletic Association of Marathon has taken Pheidippides as its official name.
		By that time the image of a heroic long-distance runner (in ancient Greek a hemerodromos) named Pheidippides, who ran from Marathon to Athens to announce to his fellow Athenians their great victory (in 490 BC) over the Persian forces on the plain of Marathon, was firmly entrenched in the popular imagination.
		Pheidippides arrived in Sparta the following day, a phenomenal feat of endurance running, only to be told by that the Spartans that they were in the midst of the celebration of an important religious festival, the Carneia, and could not possibly take any action before the full moon.
	www.athensnews.gr /athensmarathon/1mar5.htm (1197 words)

	Historia del Maratón y del Atletismo - La carrera de Pheidippides - Copacabana Runners
		La verdad es que Pheidippides estaba a cargo de una misión aún más ardua y importante.
		Y entonces Pheidippides corrió los 240 kilómetros en dos días, apenas para llegar en Esparta y para tener "no" como respuesta.
		Y entonces Pheidippides tuvo que venir de vuelta a Atenas con las malas noticias, corriendo.
	www.copacabanarunners.net /esphistmara.html (520 words)

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		Pheidippides is trying his sneaker in preparation for the big race.
		He is named for the swift Greek runner who, in 490 B.C., ran over 25 miles from Marathon to Athens, Greece to alert the city of their victory over the Persians> This was inspiration for today's marathons (26 miles, 385 yards) run in track meets and in the Olympic games.
		Pheidippides has a Greek coin and a coin loaned to me by Sterling Martin, a champion distance runner who won this in a relay race.
	www.sugab.com /scripts/5118.html (124 words)

	Wide Angle . Sahara Marathon . Race Guide: Extreme Marathons \| PBS
		Legend has it that in 490 B.C.E. Pheidippides ran 26 miles from Marathon to Athens, delivered the news of the Greek victory, and then dropped dead.
		Pheidippides had earlier run 150 miles to Sparta in an unsuccessful effort to gain immediate Spartan military support for the battle of Marathon.
		Pheidippides may have completed the world's first marathon barefoot, but most modern runners rely on sneakers.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/wideangle/shows/sahara/info.html (435 words)

	Phidippides or Pheidippides (or Philippides) and the Marathon
		Phidippides or Pheidippides (or Philippides) and the Marathon
		Phidippides or Pheidippides (or Philippides according to a text around 600 years later of Lucian) was send by the Athenians to Sparta as fast as possible he can to ask for help.
		On the occasion of which we speak when Pheidippides was sent by the Athenian generals, and, according to his own account, saw Pan on his journey, he reached Sparta on the very next day after quitting the city of Athens.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Philipides.htm (1230 words)

	Marathon Battlefield & Burial Mound \| Museum/Attraction Review \| Athens \| Frommers.com
		When Pheidippides reached Sparta (some say that it took him about a day and a half -- clearly the gods were on his side), the Spartans said they would be delighted to join the Athenians, after the conclusion of an important Spartan religious festival observing the full moon.
		By nightfall, the victory was won, and Pheidippides was again dispatched, this time to run to Athens with news of the victory at Marathon.
		According to one of the legends, Pan appeared to Pheidippides as he ran with news of the victory to Athens.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/athens/A32682.html (887 words)

	The Marathon (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Michael Breal, suggested that the Olympic marathon be contested as a one time event to honor the legend of Pheidippides.
		Pheidippides was the Athenian messenger who supposedly ran from the battlefield at the plains of Marathon to the city of Athens in 490 B.C. to announce the Athenian vitory over the Persians.
		Shortly after covering the 24 mile path from Marathon to Athens Pheidippides died due to the extreme conditions he placed on his body.
	people.msoe.edu /~lemlere/history.html (347 words)

	Pheidippides - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pheidippides ]: Φειδιππιδης, sometimes given as Phidippides or Philippides), hero of Ancient Greece, is the central figure in a myth which was the inspiration for the modern sporting event, the marathon.
		The Athenians believed Pheidippides's story, and when their affairs were once more in a prosperous state, they built a shrine to Pan under the Acropolis, and from the time his message was received they held an annual ceremony, with a torch-race and sacrifices, to court his protection.
		On the occasion of which I speak - when Pheidippides, that is, was sent on his mission by the Athenian commanders and said that he saw Pan - he reached Sparta the day after he left Athens and delivered his message to the Spartan government.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pheidippides (924 words)

	Aristophanes' Clouds
		This assumption is strengthened by the fact that, since Pheidippides is sleeping under five blankets, the weather is cool, which would make it even less likely that this was intended as an outdoor scene.
		After Pheidippides masters immoral logic in the Thinkery and Strepsiades rejoices because of his son's and his own cleverness, Strepsiades's creditors, Pasias and Amynias, arrive to get their money.
		Rather than Pheidippides who was sent to the Thinkery for this very purpose, it is Strepsiades who unexpectedly routs the creditors.
	ablemedia.com /ctcweb/netshots/clouds.htm (2050 words)

	Cool Running :: On the Trail of Pheidippides: Olympic Track and Field at Athens, 1896 and 2004
		There is no firm evidence that Pheidippides actually was the runner that ran from Marathon to Athens, but there likely was a courier who did.
		Pheidippides was a running courier and certainly did run from Athens to Sparta on the Peloponnesian Peninsula, a 150-mile, two day run.
		It is better that Pheidippides be regarded as the messenger from Marathon, otherwise the Marathon race might instead be called the Spartan, a race of 150 miles.
	www.coolrunning.com /engine/6/on-the-trail-of-pheidippi.shtml (2872 words)

	The New York Flyers (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Realizing that their forces are outnumbered 2 to 1 by the approaching invaders, the Greek generals send the messenger Pheidippides to Sparta, 140 miles away, to request reinforcements.
		Pheidippides returns 2 days later (???) with the bad news that the Spartans are in the middle of a religious observance and are not willing to send the requested reinforcements until the next full moon.
		So let's re-cap: Pheidippides has already run 280 miles in 2 days, fought in a tremendous battle, and now is being sent on what amounts to a 25-mile cool-down run with the small task of telling the nervous Athenians to call off their impending pyrotechnics.
	www.nyflyers.org /stories/athens2003.html (2420 words)

	Marathon History
		The idea of the marathon was inspired by the legend of Pheidippides, a professional runner who is believed to have carried the news of the Greek victory over the Persians in the Battle of Marathon in 490 BC.
		The fifth century BC historian Herodotus, while writing about the Battle the Marathon made no mention of Pheidippides' feat and there is no evidence that the dramatic incident ever took place.
		Invoking the legend of Pheidippides, Breal and Frenchman Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympics, presented the idea to the Organizing Committee of the Athens Olympics.
	www.rediff.com /sports/2004/feb/11history.htm (303 words)

	Search Results for "Pheidippides"
		According to legend, in 490 B.C., Pheidippides, a runner from Marathon, carried news of victory over the Persians...
		They had sought the help of Sparta, by way of the Athenian courier Pheidippides, who covered the distance (c.150 mi; 241 km) from Athens to Sparta...
		5 The water is up in Wine Creek, cried Joe Welling with the air of Pheidippides bringing news of the victory of the Greeks in the struggle at Marathon....
	www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch?FILTER=&query=Pheidippides (205 words)

	Olympics: Marathon
		There is no hard evidence Pheidippides' effort actually took place since written accounts did not appear for more than 600 years.
		Scholars prefer a version of the story in which Pheidippides ran 153 miles from Athens to Sparta to request assistance prior to the Persian attack of Marathon.
		When the modern Olympics began in 1896, the tale of Pheidippides' feat was immortalized: A 24.8-mile race would serve as the final event of the Games, covering the route from Marathon Bridge to the Olympic Stadium in Athens.
	www.sptimes.com /2004/08/08/news_pf/Olympics/Marathon.shtml (1016 words)

	Clouds
		Pheidippides doesn't want to go to school because Socrates and his students are poor, pasty-faced, ill-shod intellectuals; he prefers the beautiful people who can afford horses (taking after his mother's aristocratic tastes, rather than his father's thrift).
		Pheidippides returns with his education, and quickly turns it against his father.
		As Pheidippides points out, traditions and laws were simply laid down by some man or another, and he could just as well have been wrong as right.
	www.siu.edu /~dfll/classics/Johnson/Greeks/Lectures/clouds.html (1301 words)

	plot.nub.html (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Strepsiades is looking for a teacher for his son, Pheidippides, for a particular purpose.
		But Pheidippides' new knowledge leads him into a conflict with his father, who now realizes that he has made a tragic or comic-tragic mistake.
		Pheidippides, however, refuses to participate: he will not lift a finger against his teachers, he says.
	www.rci.rutgers.edu /~edmunds/plot.nub.html (217 words)

	PROLOGUE: THE LEGEND (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Still, in the centuries that followed, the legend of Pheidippides (as he began to be called) and the legend of a runner who died to bring news of victory to the Athenians merged, and many later writers gave the name Pheidippides to the ill-fated runner.
		Though Pheidippides was certainly not the runner who carried the news of Greek victory to Athens, and though it seems unlikely that any professional foot courier of ancient Greece would have perished after such a run, the legend took hold, and out of that legend grew the modern marathon race.
		Another French delegate to the conference, Michel Bréal, a linguist and historian, was enthralled by the legend of Pheidippides and the famous run from Marathon to Athens.
	www.expage.com /rwmhistory2 (670 words)

	The Great Marathon Myth
		The Athenian generals sent Pheidippides, a professional runner, to Sparta to ask the spartans to help fight the Persian army, who had arrived by ship at Marathon.
		Pheidippides completed the 145 mile journey and arrived in Sparta the day after he left Athens.
		So there you have it - Pheidippides was more than a mere marathon runner - according to the nearest historical account we have, he completed back to back ultramarathons each of over 200km in extent.
	www.coolrunning.co.nz /articles/2002a007.html (2065 words)

	48° North - Seabiscuit's Revenge
		September was unusually warm in 490 B.C. Pheidippides had just run 26 miles down the rough, rocky roads of Greece wearing just a toga and a pair of beat up sandals.
		Pheidippides, whose name roughly translates as "bread of the ocean", believed that after death he would drift happily down to Hades (no negative connotation in those days).
		In the early 20th century, Pheidippides' life as an Oklahoma farmer came to an abrupt end when (in anger, of course) he kicked his horse and the horse kicked back.
	www.48north.com /oct_2003/seabiscuit.htm (1903 words)

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