The Twitter Herodotus

6.101 They stayed to defend their walls. The Persians attacked and took the city on day 7. They burned its temples and enslaved its people.

6.102 After a few days the Persians sailed to Attica. Hippias, the son of Pisistratus, instructed them to land at Marathon.

6.103 The Athenians marched to Marathon under the command of 10 generals, one of whom was Miltiades, the son of Cimon.

6.104 Since he'd returned from the Chersonese, Miltiades was tried in connection w/his tyranny there, but was acquitted and elected general.

6.105 While still in Athens, the generals sent a runner, Phidippides, to Sparta. (He later said he ran into the god Pan on Mt. Parthenium.)

6.106 Phidippides arrived the next day & asked the Spartans to send help. They agreed to, but said they couldn't until after the full moon.

6.107 Hippias had dreamt he would die in Attica. But when he lost a tooth after disembarking he knew only it was fated to lie in Attic soil.

6.108 The Plataeans came in full force to help the Athenians at Marathon, as the two states had been staunch allies for some time.

6.109 Athens' generals disagreed over whether to fight or not. Miltiades talked w/the polemarch Callimachus, urging him to vote pro-fight.

6.110 Callimachus was persuaded: the Athenians would fight. But they still waited to attack until it was Miltiades’ official turn 2 command.