MOUNT ATHOS

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Mount Athos

Athos is the easternmost of the three promontories of Chalkidiki – a Greek peninsula that stretches into the Aegean Sea between the Thermaic and Strimonic gulfs. Some 60 kilometres in length, Athos varies in width from 8-12 kilometres covering in all an area of approximately 360 square kilometres. The landward end of the promontory is low and flat, with small plains and hillocks; but as it extends seawards, clusters of peaks swell higher and higher to end finally in the bare slopes of Mount Athos, whose pyramidal summit rises sheer from the sea to more than 2000 metres.
The ancients called the whole peninsula “Akte”. The name Athos, a prehellenic word, was that of a Thracian giant who, according to one view, hurled that whole stony mass at Poseidon in a clash between gods and giants. In another version of the Gigantomachy, we are told that Poseidon was victorious, burying the rebellious giant Athos under the great rock. According to another legend, first recorded by Strabo and repeated by Plutarch, Deinokrates, architect to Alexander the Great, wanted to transform the whole of Mount Athos into an immense figure of the Macedonian king. […] (From the publisher)