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This page is part of the "tools" section of a site, Plato and his dialogues, dedicated to developing a new interpretation of Plato's dialogues. The "tools" section provides historical and geographical context (chronology, maps, entries on characters and locations) for Socrates, Plato and their time. By clicking on the minimap at the beginning of the entry, you can go to a full size map in which the city or location appears. For more information on the structure of entries and links available from them, read the notice at the beginning of the index of persons and locations.
Summit at the tip of one of the peninsulæ of Chalcidice
along the northern coast of the Ægean Sea (area
9).
During a first attempt to invade Greece in 492,
the Persian fleet of King Darius, under the
leadership of Mardonius, was completely destroyed by a tempest in trying to
round Mount Athos (Herodotus' Histories,
VI, 44) putting an end to the expedition.
So, when, several years later, Darius' son Xerxes
decided to mount a new attempt at invading Greece, leading to the second Medean
War in 480, in order to avoid another such disaster,
he ordered a channel to be digged through the peninsula, north of Mount Athos,
for his fleet to sail through (Herodotus'
Histories,
VII, 21-25).
