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In ancient Greece, the stadion was a unit of measurement equal to 600 Greek feet, or about 607 of our feet. The Greeks thought this was a perfect distance for a foot race. So they came to use the word stadion for an arena built around a foot-race track, which was originally one stadion long. The Romans changed the word to stadiu
