In 490 BC, Aeschylus and his brother Cynegeirus fought to defend Athens against Darius I's invading Persian army at the Battle of Marathon.

However, the invasion ended in 490 BC with the decisive Athenian victory at the Battle of Marathon.

However, after the victorious Battle of Marathon in 490 BC, they decided to revise the plan and use marble instead.

All the incidents subsequent to the appeal of Athens to Sparta are expressly referred by Herodotus to the interval between the sending of the heralds in 491 BC and the invasion of Datis and Artaphernes in 490 BC ( cf.

The Battle of Marathon (, Machē tu Marathōnos ) took place in 490 BC, during the first Persian invasion of Greece.

In 490 BC, he sent a naval task force under Datis and Artaphernes across the Aegean, to subjugate the Cyclades, and then to make punitive attacks on Athens and Eretria.

However in 490 BC, following up the successes of the previous campaign, Darius decided to send a maritime expedition led by Artaphernes, ( son of the satrap to whom Hippias had fled ) and Datis, a Median admiral.

Philipp August Böckh in 1855 concluded that the battle took place on September 12, 490 BC in the Julian calendar, and this is the conventionally accepted date.

In that case the battle took place on August 12, 490 BC.

The Defence of Greece 490 – 479 BC.

Category: 490 BC

As early as 490 BC a breed of large horses was bred in the Nisaean plain in Media to carry men with increasing amounts of armour ( Herodotus 7, 40 & 9, 20 ).

The most impressive is the now-restored Athenian Treasury, built to commemorate the Athenians ' victory at the Battle of Marathon in 490 BC.

* Pythagoras 580 – 490 BC, ancient Greece

The first endeavor to build a sanctuary for Athena Parthenos on the site of the present Parthenon was begun shortly after the Battle of Marathon ( c. 490 – 488 BC ) upon a muscular limestone foundation that extended and leveled the southern part of the Acropolis summit.

Category: 490 BC births

Detail from an Ancient Greece | Ancient Greek Attic Red-figure pottery | red-figure kylix ( drinking cup ) | kylix, 490 – 480 BC, from Vulci.

In a Classical period text ascribed to Empedocles, c. 490 – 430 BC, describing a correspondence among four deities and the classical elements, the name Nestis for water apparently refers to Persephone: " Now hear the fourfold roots of everything: enlivening Hera, Hades, shining Zeus.

Thus, the Via Gabina ( during the time of Porsena ) is mentioned in about 500 BC ; the Via Latina ( during the time of Coriolanus ) in about 490 BC ; the Via Nomentana, or Via Ficulensis, in 449 BC ; the Via Labicana in 421 BC ; and the Via Salaria in 361 BC.

* 490 BC – Battle of Marathon: The conventionally accepted date for the Battle of Marathon.

* 490 – Battle of Adda: The Goths under Theodoric the Great and his ally Alaric II defeat the forces of Odoacer on the Adda River, near Milan.

The Persian fleet roamed the Aegean Sea unopposed, but the first invasion force was defeated at the Battle of Marathon in 490 BC.

* 490: Battle of Mount Badon ( approximate date ).

This marks the start of the campaign that culminated in the Battle of Marathon in 490 BC.

* Possible date for the Battle of Mons Badonicus: Romano-British and Celts defeat an Anglo-Saxon army that may have been led by the bretwalda Aelle of Sussex or possibly Cerdic of Wessex ( approximate date ; suggested dates range from 490 to 517 ).

In 490 BCE, at the Battle of Marathon, the Persian army was defeated by a heavily armed Athenian army, with 9, 000 men who were supported by 600 Plataeans, 1, 000 soldiers from each of eleven Greek city-states ( 11, 000 men in total ) and 10, 000 lightly armed soldiers led by Miltiades.

The Battle of Mons Badonicus ( English Mount Badon or Badon Hill, Welsh Mynydd Baddon ) was a battle between a force of Britons and an Anglo-Saxon army, probably sometime between 490 and 517 AD.

The famous statesman Pericles also commissioned several sculptures for Athens from him in 447 BC, to celebrate Greek victory against the Persians at the Battle of Marathon during the Greco-Persian Wars ( 490 BC ).

In the Battle of Marathon ( 490 BC ), it is said that Pan favored the Athenians and so inspired panic in the hearts of their enemies, the Persians.

Some scholars suggest that Cerdic was the Saxon leader defeated by the British at the Battle of Mount Badon, which was probably fought sometime between 490 and 518.

It included a crown of stags and little Nikes and was made by Pheidias after the Battle of Marathon ( 490 BC ), crafted from a block of Parian marble brought by the overconfident Persians, who had intended to make a memorial stele after their expected victory.

The maneuver was probably first used at the Battle of Marathon in 490 BC.

He then ran the from the battlefield near Marathon to Athens to announce the Greek victory over Persia in the Battle of Marathon ( 490 BC ) with the word νικωμεν ’ ( nikomen –" We have won "), as stated by Lucian " chairete, nikomen " (" hail, we are the winners ") to then collapse and die.

At the Battle of Marathon, in 490 BC, the Persians took little heed of a primarily hoplitic army, resulting in their defeat.

In 490 BC, in the aftermath of the Battle of Marathon, a shield-signal was raised on Mount Pentelicon above Marathon supposedly to signal the Persians to sail around Cape Sounion and attack the unguarded city of Athens.

He was relieved of his command by Darius, who appointed Datis and Artaphernes to lead the invasion of Greece in 490 BC, and though they were subsequently successful in capturing Naxos and destroying Eretria, they were later defeated at the Battle of Marathon.

* 490 BC: Phidippides runs 40 kilometers from Marathon to Athens to announce the news of the Greek victory ; origin of the marathon long-distance race

Marathon ( Demotic Greek: Μαραθώνας, Marathónas ; Attic / Katharevousa:, ) is a town in Greece, the site of the battle of Marathon in 490 BC, in which the heavily outnumbered Athenian army defeated the Persians.

He proposed the introduction of an endurance road race under the name " Marathon " which would start from the region where in 490 BC the battle of the Greeks against the Persians occurred and would end at the Pnyx of Ancient Athens, where, presumably, the messenger arrived bringing the good news of victory to the Athenians.

* 490 Themistocles and Miltiades, Athenians, defeat Darius at Marathon, Phidippides runs with news

* Xerxes I of Persia is encouraged by his cousin and brother-in-law, Mardonius, supported by a strong party of exiled Greeks, to take revenge for the defeat that Darius I suffered at the hands of the Greeks at Marathon in 490 BC.

His elder brother the king had already been deposed on grounds of purported insanity, and had fled into exile when Athens sought assistance against the Persian invasion that ended at Marathon ( 490 BC ).

The traditional story relates that Pheidippides ( 530 BC – 490 BC ), an Athenian herald or hemerodrome ( translated as " day-runner " ( Kyle 2007 ), courier ( Larcher 1806 ), " professional-running courier " ( Sears 2003 ) or " day-long runner " ( Miller 2006 )), was sent to Sparta to request help when the Persians landed at Marathon, Greece.