the Athenians over the Persians, writers continued to call upon the name of Marathon to symbolize humanitys struggle for freedom. The nineteenth-century English poet Lord Byron, who fought for Greek independence from the Ottoman Empire, penned the following verse:The mountains look on MarathonAnd Marathon looks on the sea;And musing there an hour alone,I dreamd that Greece might still be free;For standing on the Persians grave,I could not deem myself a slave. -George Gordon, Lord Byron, from the poem Don Juan, 1821...
