Saronic Gulf

The Lacedaemonians arrived first, and at once set to work making machines for hauling ships over the isthmus, from Corinth to the Saronic Gulf.

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

Glancing back, I saw the more straightforward Doric Temple of Apollo, exquisitely outlined against the deep blue waters of the Saronic Gulf and a lustrous sky.

See Delphi and Die Davis, Lindsey 2005

The next morning the sun burned over the Saronic Gulf, its rays reflecting blindingly off the blue waters.

Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2005

A boom rang out over the colonnades, the quay, and the Saronic Gulf.

Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2005

From its precise launching to its bravura sweep up the Saronic Gulf to its soundless parade past an ignorant enemy, the Persian navy had performed brilliantly.

The Battle of Salamis Barry Strauss 2004

Aegina is an island in the Saronic Gulf, south of Salamis, about thirty-three square miles in size.

The Battle of Salamis Barry Strauss 2004

The Aeginetan navy ruled the Saronic Gulf for decades.

The Battle of Salamis Barry Strauss 2004

In addition, they might have instructed rowing masters and pipers not to call out or pipe each stroke but, rather, to keep time by striking stones together—as a Spartan fleet did when successfully surprising the Athenians in the Saronic Gulf at night in 388 B.C.—or perhaps by leading the crew in humming or whispering a rhythmic song.

The Battle of Salamis Barry Strauss 2004

In the region of Attica, it blows in from the south, off the Saronic Gulf.

The Battle of Salamis Barry Strauss 2004

Just northeast of Cynosura lies the islet of Psyttaleia; together the islet and the peninsula all but block off the eastern end of the Salamis straits from the Saronic Gulf.

The Battle of Salamis Barry Strauss 2004