Mount Athos
place · 2 works · 2 mentions · 4 anchored passages
Athos · Acrothoum · Cleonae · Dion · Olophyxus · Sane · Thyssus
in the texts
On the Commonwealth
Mountain in Greece invoked as an example of vast natural scale in a rhetorical fragment.
unless someone wishes to fashion Athos from the foundations into a monument.
The Histories
The mountain peninsula of Athos and its cluster of small Greek towns, through which Xerxes' canal is dug.
There is a meadow there, where they made a place for buying and marketing;
Athos is a great and famous mountain, running out into the sea and inhabited by men.
there are others situated seaward of Sane and landward of Athos, and the Persian now intended to make them into island and not mainland towns;