The battle of Marathon was won by the city-state of Athens, not the Greeks. The Persians had arranged for the party of the ousted tyrant of Athens to open the gates of the city. They kept the...
No, it was the Athenians and Plataians who won this battle. The rest of Greece was not involved, though the Spartans were invited but got there too late. In 490 BCE a punitive expedition was sent by...