Echetleos: The Mysterious Warrior
According to historical records a
mysterious warrior appeared on the battlefield of Marathon (490BC) on the side
of Greeks fighting against the Persians. The name given to this mystery man is
Echetleos.
Pausanias in his book “Attika”
describes the whole incident.
” They say that a man happened to
be present looking like a farmer. Killing many of the foreigners (Persians)
with his plow handle (a plow handle looks like a modern day gun as shown in the
image below), he disappeared after the battle. When the Athenians asked the
oracle, the god just gave the order to honour Echetleos as a hero. They
constructed a monument made of white marble. Although the Athenians
testify that they buried the Persian as the divine laws in any case commands
that the dead body has to be buried, I was not able to locate a tomb.”
Echetleos: The MysteriousHigh-Tech Warrior of the Battle of Marathon
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