What if the Persians won the Battle of Marathon?

Might a defeat at Marathon combined with a destruction of Athens result in a renewed Greek colonial push? Citizens of other defeated/conquered cities moving to Megale Hellas in Sicily and Italy and perhaps farther west, like the coasts of Liguria and Gaul?
With more manpower, there might be a true thalassocratic Syracusan Empire.
 
Here's a map of the spheres of influence in the Western Med. Note that blue means Etruscan, not Roman.

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One possible result:
Thrace as direct Persian satrapy (as before), the Aegaean Islands as a new satrapy, Macedonia, Thessaly, Epirus, a Thebes-led central Greece and an Argos-led Pelopponesos as Persian vassals.
 
What will call races that are 25 miles or longer?
They are called Pheidippides, after the runner who ran 150 miles from Athens to Sparta, and back in two days, which bought the Spartans into the area in time to combine with the remains of the Athenian forces to defeat the Persians.
Pheidippides are raced every four years at the Olympics.
 

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Or, of course, the Aranthes - the informal name for a 30-mile race. The name comes from the two battles fought by the army of Aranthes Apunas thirty miles apart on successive days, during the campaigns of the Latin Wars.


(Because if you're going AltHist, why not go whole hog? This is an Etruscan League doing better thanks to their lack of participation in the 415 BC Athenian invasion of Syracuse.)
 
Why do some people assume Sparta is gonna come to the rescue? Didn't Athens and Sparta just literally finish a war? In fact wasn't it this war the whole reason Athens went to Persia with an offering of "Earth & Water" to get them on there side in that conflict in the first place.

And if not still City States means exactly as it says Spartans, Athenians, Corithians, Thebians, etc... Don't have the concept of Greece beyond a technicality that yes we're all ethnic Greeks but I'm such and such of the city of whatever first and Greek second. To a Corithian why should he get involved in Athens problems it's there problem not Corinths. So why would Sparta, Athens arch rival get involved spending precious money and even more precious Spartans to fight a war on Athens behalf(there not even a democracy)
 
Why do some people assume Sparta is gonna come to the rescue? Didn't Athens and Sparta just literally finish a war? In fact wasn't it this war the whole reason Athens went to Persia with an offering of "Earth & Water" to get them on there side in that conflict in the first place.

And if not still City States means exactly as it says Spartans, Athenians, Corithians, Thebians, etc... Don't have the concept of Greece beyond a technicality that yes we're all ethnic Greeks but I'm such and such of the city of whatever first and Greek second. To a Corithian why should he get involved in Athens problems it's there problem not Corinths. So why would Sparta, Athens arch rival get involved spending precious money and even more precious Spartans to fight a war on Athens behalf(there not even a democracy)
Sparta sent an army of 2000 to fight at Marathon. Its kind of a no brainer that if the army was there already, the only options for them are to either fight or withdraw, which is where the assumption comes from.
 
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