Question

Description acceptable. Artemis’s aid to these people was honored in an annual festival where 500 goats were sacrificed. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these people, such as Cynaegirus (“sin-uh-JYE-russ”), who were buried in the soros and honored as cultic heroes. Panaenus painted a mural of these people being aided by the Twelve Olympians and Theseus in the Stoa Poikile (“poi-KEE-leh”).
ANSWER: Marathonomachoi [accept descriptions of the Athenian veterans of the Battle of Marathon or Athenians who fought at the Battle of Marathon; accept descriptions of the Athenian dead from the Battle of Marathon; accept Greeks or Hellenes or Éllines in place of “Athenians”; prompt on Athenians or Greeks; prompt soldiers or veterans or hoplites or similar answers]
[10e] According to legend, the god Pan appeared to this man to say he would help the Athenians at Marathon. In a later story, this man ran 26 miles from Marathon to announce the victory at Athens, then died.
ANSWER: Pheidippides [or Philippides]
[10m] Troops from this city were the only ones to help Athens at the Battle of Marathon. According to Herodotus, Aristides (“air-ih-STY-deez”) the Just led Athenian forces at a battle near this city that was honored with the “Serpent Column.”
ANSWER: Plataea [accept Battle of Plataea]
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2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y2114.2991%38%14%

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Claremont ABrown A010010
Columbia AMcGill A010010
Cornell BMinnesota B0000
Georgia Tech ADuke A0101020
Harvard AVanderbilt A010010
North Carolina AJohns Hopkins A010010
Chicago CMichigan A010010
Rutgers BOhio State A0101020
Minnesota APenn A010010
Illinois APenn State A0101020
Chicago ARutgers A10101030
Stanford AGeorgia Tech B0101020
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Yale AWUSTL B10101030
Columbia BYale B010010
MIT AFlorida B010010
Maryland AHouston A010010
UC Berkeley ACornell A010010
Purdue AFlorida A10101030
Iowa State AImperial A010010
South Carolina AToronto A0000