"According to the Histories of the ancient Greek historian Herodotus, which recounts the events of the Greco-Persian Wars, the Persian commander Mardonios, in 492 BCE, lost a great part of his fleet, 300 ships and 20,000 men, in a storm going around the cliffs of the Athos peninsula, during the First Persian invasion of Greece.
Xerxes, in preparation for the Second Persian invasion of Greece, in 483 BCE ordered a channel built through the Athos isthmus in order to avoid falling prey to the same catastrophe. Herodotus speculates that pride also was a motivating factor."
I enjoyed this because it was a pretty view, and I sneaked down to touch the water.
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| I guess I wasn't being as sneaky as I thought because Bob caught me on camera. |
As we were driving away, the bus was backing up closer and closer to a drop off into the water. I thought we were going over. Obviously we did not nor did we die as I'm here typing this blog.
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