Aerial View of the Euripo Strait
Item
File name
sackett_158 See all items with this value
Title
Aerial View of the Euripo Strait See all items with this value
Description
This is a view of the Euripo Strait seperating Euboea from Boeotia. The city of Chalcis can be seen in the upper right hand corner of the image. The mouth of the Lilas river is also visible. See all items with this value
Place name
Evrípou, Porthmós (strait) See all items with this value
Subject
Landscape
Notes
Some ancient writers such as Diodorus Siculus claim that the Euboeans attempted to dam the straight and become a part of mainland Greece to avoid Athenian hegemony, but neither Thucydides or Xenophon mentions the event.
Date photographed
February 1978
