1. Although the Egyptian fleet had blockaded the Saronic Gulf, Antigonus defeated Areus near Corinth in 265 and then besieged Athens.…

2. 15 The Greek fleet was beaten at Artemisium, Thermopylae stormed, Athens conquered,[www.Sentencedict.com] the Greeks driven back to their last line of defence at the Isthmus of Corinth and in the Saronic Gulf.

3. The first recorded instance of people travelling for medical treatment dates back thousands of years to when Greek pilgrims traveled from the eastern Mediterranean to a small area in the Saronic Gulf called Epidauria.