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<p><b>Pheidippides</b> (; ; , ,  ) or <b>Philippides</b> <i>??????????</i> was a 5th-century-BC <a href="page.php?w=Athens">Athenian</a> <a href="page.php?w=Hemerodromoi">running courier</a> who was the central figure in the story that inspired the <a href="page.php?w=marathon_race">marathon race</a>.</p>

<p>The best-known version of this story is the 1879 poem Pheidippides by <a href="page.php?w=Robert_Browning">Robert Browning</a>, in which Pheidippides is said to have run approximately 240 km from Athens to <a href="page.php?w=Sparta">Sparta</a></p><p>
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