Hellespont
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He discovered, upon crossing the Hellespont, that his huge armies exceeded the carrying capacity of the Greek countryside, that the topography favored the defender, that late-summer storms were battering his fleet in the Aegean Sea.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2018
He was a man of letters but also, like his hero Byron, a man of action — a war hero and a restless adventurer, who even swam the Hellespont when he was 69.
From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2017
The strait on its southern shore is the Dardanelles—or, to use the old romantic term, the Hellespont, as it was called when Byron swam across it, in 1810.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 25, 2015
An intellectual counter to the polymath Fermor, she was there when, aged 69, he swam the Hellespont in imitation of his idol Lord Byron.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2014
Leander was a youth of Abydus, a town on the Hellespont, and Hero was Priestess of Aphrodite in Sestus on the opposite shore.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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