[BohDaThone]

1. He wasn't warning -- he was announcing the victory at Marathon.

2. He wasn't killed. He cried (in Greek), "Rejoice, we conquer" -- and dropped dead from his exertions.

3. A few days earlier, he had indeed run much farther to warn of the Persian invasion, helping to alert some of the troops who then marched to defend Greece. Again, no one killed him.

At least, those are stories of classical antiquity, and they're sticking to them!

[SEGUET]

"He wasn't killed. He cried (in Greek), "Rejoice, we conquer" -- and dropped dead from his exertions."

That is not what Oliver Stone said - he said Rebok slipped him poison in his Gatorade - and I'm going with OS.