Dilek Peninsula

Two great battles on the same day, on the two shores of the sea… According to the historians of antiquity, on a summer’s day in 479 BC the Greeks defeated the Persians both at Plataea in Greece and on the Anatolian coast, at the foot of Mount Mycale. Legend has it that the soldiers about to fight at Mycale heard of the victory at Plataea as a rumor before the battle began, and took courage from it. No one could explain how the news crossed the seas so quickly; perhaps they contented themselves with calling it the work of the gods…