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Updated: May 24, 2025
And restore me to Athens, after doing deeds which wipe out all my unearned shame!” The Solon rounded the cape. The headland concealed the city. The Saronian bay opened into the deeper blue of the Ægean and its sprinkling of brown islands. Glaucon looked eastward and strove to forget Attica. Two hours later all Athens seemed reading this placard in the Agora:—
Themistocles was in absolute command, and perhaps in his heart of hearts Democrates was not mournful if it lay out of his power to do a second ill-turn to his country. It was again summer, and again such a day as when Glaucon with glad friends had rowed toward Salamis. The Saronian bay flashed fairest azure. The scattered isles and the headlands of Argolis rose in clear beauty.
The Barbarian was vanquished; the impossible accomplished. Hellas and Athens were their own, with none to take away. They saw the blue bay of Phaleron. They saw the craggy height of Munychia, Salamis with its strait of the victory, farther yet the brown dome of Acro-Corinthus and the wide breast of the clear Saronian sea.
In the middle of the Saronian Gulf lies the island of Ægina, and in the northern part of it the island of Salamis. The progress of the Persian fleet was from Therma down the coast to Sciathus, thence along the shores of Euboea to its southern point, and so round into the Saronian Gulf to the island of Salamis. The distance of this voyage was perhaps two hundred and fifty miles.
Xerxes's opinion of her valor. Progress of the battle. The Persians give way. Heroism of Aristides. He captures Psyttalia. The Greeks victorious. Repairing damages. Xerxes resolves on flight. The sea after the battle. Fulfillment of an ancient prophecy. Salamis is an island of a very irregular form, lying in the Saronian Gulf, north of Ægina, and to the westward of Athens.
On passing the southernmost extremity of the island of Euboea, and turning to the westward, we come to a promontory of the main land, which constituted Attica, and in the middle of which the city of Athens was situated. Beyond this is a capacious gulf, called the Saronian Gulf. It lies between Attica and the Peloponnesus.
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