JAMES T CARNEHAN/AGE FOTOSTOCK
BETWEEN STONE
AND SEA
When this memorial to Leonidas
was erected at Thermopylae in
1955, the landscape had changed
greatly since the battle in 480 b.c.
when the Kallidromo massif
formed the southern wall of the
narrow Thermopylae Pass, and
the northern boundary was the
Aegean Sea. Over the centuries,
silt brought downstream by
rivers has shifted the coastline
farther north.