Addictions and Other Vices Podcast 165 - Days Like These!!!

After recording this show. I heard a crack of thunder and made my exit from the studio. It wasn’t the rain I should have left earlier to avoid it was the Marathon. With no transit available I walked for an hour in the muggy heat until I had met the Marathon head on. This podcast has nothing to do with that experience. Tonight new Indie finds, Reputation Radio favourites,selections from the Addictions Inbox plus a few surprises before we reach the finish line. This is Addictions and Other Vices Podcast 165 – Days Like These!!! Hope You Enjoy.On The Fix MixOriginALuc-Olivier Merson‘s painting depicting Pheidippides giving word of victory at the Battle of Marathon to the people of AthensThe name Marathon[n 1] comes from the legend of Pheidippides, a Greek messenger. The legend states that he was sent from the battlefield of Marathon to Athens to announce that the Persians had been defeated in the Battle of Marathon(in which he had just fought),[3] which took place in August or September, 490 BC.[4] It is said that he ran the entire distance without stopping and burst into the assembly, exclaiming νενικήκαμεν (nenikekamen, “we have wοn”), before collapsing and dying.[5] The account of the run from Marathon to Athens first appears in Plutarch‘s On the Glory of Athensin the 1st century AD, which quotes from Heraclides Ponticus‘s lost work, giving the runner’s name as either Thersipus of Erchius or Eucles.[6]Lucian of Samosata (2nd century AD) also gives the story, but names the runner Philippides (not Pheidippides).[7]There is debate about the historical accuracy of this legend.[8][9] The Greek historian Herodotus, the main source for the Greco-Persian Wars, mentions Pheidippides as the messenger who ran from Athens to Sparta asking for help, and then ran back, a distance of over 240 kilometres (150 mi) each way.[10] In some Herodotus manuscripts, the name of the runner between Athens and Sparta is given as Philippides. Herodotus makes no mention of a messenger sent from Marathon to Athens, and relates that the main part of the Athenian army, having fought and won the grueling battle, and fearing a naval raid by the Persian fleet against an undefended Athens, marched quickly back from the battle to Athens, arriving the same day.[11]In 1879, Robert Browning wrote the poem Pheidippides. Browning’s poem, his composite story, became part of late 19th century popular culture and was accepted as a historic legend.[12]There are two roads out of the battlefield of Marathon towards Athens, one more mountainous towards the north whose distance is about 34.5 km (21.4 mi), and another flatter but longer towards the south with a distance of 40.8 km (25.4 mi). It has been argued that the ancient runner took the more difficult northern road because at the time of the battle there were still Persian soldiers in the south of the plain.[citation needed]Mount Penteli stands between Marathon and Athens, which means that, if Pheidippides actually made his famous run after the battle, he had to run around the mountain, either to the north or to the south. The latter and more obvious route matches almost exactly the modern Marathon-Athens highway, which follows the lie of the land southwards from Marathon Bay and along the coast, then takes a gentle but protracted climb westwards towards the eastern approach to Athens, between the foothills of Mounts Hymettus and Penteli, and then gently downhill to Athens proper. This route, as it existed when the Olympics were revived in 1896, was approximately 40 kilometres (25 mi) long, and this was the approximate distance originally used for marathon races. However, there have been suggestions that Pheidippides might have followed another route: a westward climb along the eastern and northern slopes of Mount Penteli to the pass of Dionysos, and then a straight southward downhill path to Athens. This route is considerably shorter, some 35 kilometres (22 mi), but includes a very steep initial climb of more than 5 kilometres (3.1 mi).Get Your FixAs the weather starts to get nicer so do the opportunities to enjoy these podcasts. You can listen by radio via bombshellradio.com. You can catch up on ParkerBombshell.com. In the car, on the beach ,at the Marathon.