Mount Mycale as seen from the island of Samos, across the Mycale Strait.

    Caption: Ionia: "Mount Mycale as seen from the island of Samos, across the Mycale Strait."

    The Battle of Mycale (479 BCE) of Greco-Persian Wars (499--449 BCE) was fought on slopes of Mount Mycale:

      Tell me what song she sings and why numbers flow,
      it is for dread far-off things and battles long ago.

        ---Misquoted from William Wordsworth (1770--1850), The Solitary Reaper.

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