>Quickly Anon! You have to bring this message to Athens and request for backup. If you don't reach the city in less than 2 and a half hours we'll be overrun by Persians!>Athens is about 42 kilometers in THAT direction. God speed soldier. Would you make it?
Shows you that running is a death cult no wonder they all have cancer and heart issues
>>77209728>42 kilometers
>>77209728I would tell him to kick rocks as we've just won the battle.
>>77209728Just checked and the world record is 2 hours. I don't think anyone in this board could do it.
>>77209728>in THAT directionjust run though the mountain range?
Yeah there’s this thing called a horse you retard
>>77209728Sure let me hop on my e bike
>>77209728>dies of rhabdo
>>77209805I actually don’t understand why he didn’t use a horse. I remember doing research on horses because of this and a good racing horse, or one used in war, would be capable of running 20 miles in 2 hours. Even an okay one should have been able to lessen the distance and clear at least 1/4th the distance and let the dude survive
>>77209743The story goes that the Athenians voted to leave part of the army behind in Athens to burn and slaughter their own city before the Persians did. The Athenians won at Marathon, but the Persian fleet decided to sail to Athens anyway. The runner had to tell the reserve army the Persians were weak and to fight instead of burning the city down.
>>77209728sure, let me get my horse
>run until the hill hides me>walk the rest of the way
>>77209728I'd take a casual stroll and be glad im away from the conflict
>I light the victory beaconsAll done
>>77209728>what are horses
>>77210010busy being cavalry
>>77210010busy making centaurs
>>77210010horses can’t talk
>>77209728Send an email. Call Athens on the phone.Is this a lateral thinking riddle or something?
Send it by pigeon lol
>>77209846>Athenians voted to leave part of the army behind in Athens to burn and slaughter their own city before the Persians didWhy can't we be like this?
>>77209728>shoot an email to the guys in athens >tell them to send me a calender invite some time when so we can circle back>they send calender invite five days later>we never circle back>we are overrun by persians
>>77209842This was the bronze age, noone had invented stirrups yet. The only way to take a horse would be by charriot along rough unpaved dirt trails
>>77210086Bareback riding is a thingStirrups are for battle
>>77210086Lol we obviously had invented stirrups at the same time the horse came into existence. The horse was a creation, its a flesh animatron powered by a human soul trapped inside its brain. The human is still operating a horses brain, it can’t compute high level equations which regulate our perceptions. To actually sit down in a science laboratory and create the first horse models is actually at a scientific level far beyond where we are at even today.
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>>77210160Look at the fucking horse buddy. It’s designed to pull a cart. Because, alienfag needed to grow food, because that’s like the entire thing is the human bodies need to consume plants and animals to power their machines. Something he figured out how to do was 4 legged creatures with eyes and a mouth. The horse has been incredibly useful as a slave to humans, to actually pay humans to do the labor a horse accomplishes would’ve costed a fortune. Wild horses literally were never a thing, they were created in a lab and shipped to farms immediately. The only wild horses were ones that escaped. The concept of a fucking horse evolving in a wild environment is so retarded I can barely handle the stupidity. Look at the thing, that’s like the least likely fucking thing to evolve in nature. It’s designed from top to bottom to be a slave to humans. There’s typically two types of animals, those of which that were released into the forests, and those that were released into farms. The forest animals are kitted out for forest work, which is incredibly dangerous but extremely cost efficient work. Alienfag ran with the concept of putting guns and knives attached to 4 legged creatures and having them kill each other to maintain the ecosystems, which are vital to humans.
>>77210172The horses back is intentionally designed to carry a human. Theres a reason we don’t ride other animals with any type of desire, they were not designed for that purpose. The hooves were designed to grow, because they’re like little shoes. Because of the weight a horse was destined to carry being much greater than its own body weight, alienfag gave it hooves which keep growing on their own. A horses big weapon is to trample smaller prey, that’s weak as fuck. Smaller prey is incredibly agile and the horses body would never be able to sustain itself that way. It’s not tall enough to eat from trees. It would be eating from the floor mainly, but that’s a lot of energy needed and it just seems very unlikely. Compare to other wild animals of a similar class, the hippo. Theres lots of dumbass animals that go into the water, the hippo can easily hunt it. The wild boar, which is incredibly fast and can easily run away or run towards something in a fight or flight situation. The elephant, which can eat shit from trees, which was one of the primary objectives for many mammals was to make them capable of reaching tree tops to eat stuff that grows. The horse also has its neck facing away from its back, so it can’t bite you while riding it. It can’t do shit except try to throw you off its back if it doesn’t like you. Farmwork was decidedly the best way to do this earth jam, right from the get go. And horses were designed to assist humans in this task.
>>77209728He literally died right after, I'm not doing that.And wasn't his message just "Victory!"? He didn't need to run to deliver that unless he wast reporting to a Rothschild.
>>77209728APOLLOOOOOOO!GIVE ME THE FORBIDDEN RUNNING SHOESAND MY FEET ARE YOURS
>>77209842today, anon learned that history is horseshit
>>77210234This raises a good question.Why didn't whoever he was reporting to in Marathon just pray to the gods for the result?Surely that would have been faster than having a guy run 26.2 miles.
>>77209728Use horse retard
>>77209733He using kilometers instead dickhamburgerspertrump what an idiot
>>77210633Brown hands typed this
>>77209729>Shows you that running is a death cult no wonder they all have cancer and heart issuesand hypogonadal
>>77211131>>Shows you that running is a death cult no wonder they all have cancer and heart issues>and hypogonadalyou dont need to do this
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>>77209728>Spartans were supersoldiers and would outperform modern soldiers and fighters >*Dies running a marathon*I can perfectly understand collapsing but dying? He was a warrior trained since birth, how can he possibly fucking die from a marathon? Middle aged moms run marathon nowdays.
>>77211235Jogging isn't running and "walking fridge that takes a million breaks with special shoes and drinks on a paved road" doesn't really compare to "guy that goes as fast as possible through possibly harsh terrain in order to save his home". Also being strong and trained in warfare doesn't translate to running extreme distances ie something no army has ever needed to do.
vax status?
>>77211246ancient boomers lied about literally everything like they have some rock some dumbfuck retard lifted that is obviously not true, inb4 ITS A METAPHOR BRO
>>77211316its a metaphor
>>77211316It's not a metaphor. You're just bitter Bybon eternally mogs you when you could instead strive to reach even 1/100th of his arete.
>>77211316>3pl8 one-handed OHPGravity was weaker back then.
>>77211316Most likely a bent press, an old-time strongman feat that relies on body mechanics rather than just raw strength to hold a heavy object overhead by shouldering it, then dropping the body beneath the object while straightening the arm, then returning to a standing position and holding the weight aloft with one hand. Arthur Saxon set the world record for this lift in 1905 at 370lbs, and supposedly lifted 386 during a training session, but this was not documented by judges who verified the weight lifted. Bybon may well have used both hands, the so-called "two hands anyhow" lift, since the stone is irregular but does have tqo gripping surfaces, which would put him on par with Golden Age strongmen of the 1900s-1930s, such as Saxon (world record of 448lbs), Ron Walker (310+lbs). This lift was a precursor to the modern clean-and-jerk, and current Olympians hold records of close to 600lbs with that technique. Given the limits of the stone itself, it is more than believable that a professional strongman or bodybuilder in ancient Greece could have hefted the stone over his head.
>>77211835Correction, the stone's inscription specifies "with one hand", so it was probably a bent press, or some other form of one handed press. Historians argue whether the verb means "lifted" or "threw", if it has the latter meaning, the stone could have been shouldered with both hands or from a raised platform, and then launched like a shot-putt. Perhaps not as impressive as a one-handed overhead press, but a feat none the less.
>>77209733What was the unit of distance in their time?
>>77210140>Bareback riding is a thing
>>77211855They had a fuckton of units for everything each with a different name. Stadion/Stadia is one of the more well known ones.
>>77211855Stadion. 600 Greek feet (podes) It's about 185 meters or 607 modern feet. It derives from the length of the foot race track at Olympia. The Marathon-Athens run would probably have been expressed either as multiple "dolichos" or "long-race" units, each being 12 stadia or about 2.25km/1.3 miles, or perhaps something like "one and a quarter stage" with "stage" being 160 stadia or roughly 30km/18.5 miles.
>>77210068homie look at what's going on in iran
>>77210086The battle of Marathon was in 430 BC, way after the Bronze Age collapse. Its well after the use of Iron. In fact they are closer to our times than they are to the early Bronze Age.>>77210158The problem is not the stirrups, but horses not bred strong enough for it. Horses in the area were not suitable because they were in rough, coastal terrains. So not bred to be able to carry people on their backs, unlike the steppe people, so no need for stirrups.They rode horses, just not enough for it to be used everywhere and expertly. Its probably they had no horses in Marathon.Alexander, who extensively used horses (because Macedonia is more suitable for it) when conquering Persia, barely used them when he conquered southern Greece.He also didnt have stirrups, which is impressive considering his men used small lances, but lances nonetheless (stirrups prevent you from being pushed back on a lance's impact).Also note how powerful Mongolian steppe poneys must be to be that small yet capable of carrying armored warriors long distance.>>77209728The runner at the battle of Marathon didnt run to ask for reinfocement, but to declare the battle's victory.
>>77211849>. This lift was a precursor to the modern clean-and-jerk, and current Olympians hold records of close to 600lbs with that technique. Given the limits of the stone itself, it is more than believable that a professional strongman or bodybuilder in ancient Greece could have hefted the stone over his head.yeah, without roids and modern nutrition Kieliszkowski is not throwing the thing you are fulla shit :D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AC8sm9h8lGwand bent press is impossible with a stone imbecile
