Dark clouds gather over Athens. Pheidippides receives the order to go to
Sparta with an official request for assistance an exercise in futility;
he runs there, is denied the request and returns to Marathon, exhausted.
Nevertheless, he joins the fighting and is subsequently ordered to run
to Athens to carry the message of the victory. Pheidippides reaches
Athens and drinks of the cup of immortality. We won! Nenikekamen.