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To: Mrs. Don-o

Didn’t the Persian fleet get wrecked by a storm while sailing around Mr. Athos or the peninsula on which it is located?


3 posted on 05/28/2016 4:38:39 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: yarddog
Didn't the Persian fleet get wrecked by a storm while sailing around Mr. Athos or the peninsula on which it is located?

Yes, according to Herodotus (6.44):

"The fleet crossed over from Thasos to the mainland, where it hugged the coast and sailed up to Acanthus. From Acanthus they set out to round the headland at Athos, but they were caught there in a northerly gale against which it proved impossible to make headway. The storm wrought havoc with them and wrecked a large number of ships on Athos. It is said that about three hundred ships were destroyed, and over twenty thousand men. The men died in various ways: some were seized by the sharks that infest the sea around Mount Athos, others were dashed on to the rocks, others drowned because they did not know how to swim, and others died because of cold."

64 posted on 05/29/2016 3:32:23 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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