Athens and Persia in the Battle of Marathon

The athenians were able to win the battle of marathon based on the fact that their troops held a defensive advantage for so long. With this choke point provided by the gap at thermopylae, the greeks reasoned that they could station a small number of hoplights there and hold off a much larger force. The effective ieness of the persian numbers would be hugely undermined if they could only fight at a choke point. And so the plan was settled. The athenians would take to the sea and defend the straits of artemesium,. Another naval choke point which would enable them to once again contest much higher numbers on the sea, but on land. In