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Modern Description: The southeastern seaboard of Euboea, was one of the most vital maritime traffic corridors in the ancient Aegean, on the route between the Black Sea and the commercial centres of mainland Greece – Athens and Corinth. It was also well-known for being one of the windiest and most tempestuous channels in the Aegean, funnelling the wind just as effectively as it funnelled the commercial traffic. This (eastern) coastline is what Herodotus was referring to as the ‘the hollows' (τὰ κοîλα) in Book VIII. 13 of his Histories, when recounting how an entire Persian squadron came to grief on the rocks here in a storm in 480 BC.
Wikidata ID: Q16330522

Info: McGilchrist's Greek Islands

(From McGilchrist’s Greek Islands, © Nigel McGilchrist 2010, excerpted with his gracious permission. Click for the books)

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