A mountain in the district of Khalkidike (Chalcidice) in northern Greece.
Khalkidike has three finger-like peninsulas jutting into the Aegean Sea and Mount Athos is on the southern-most tip of the eastern peninsula.
The goddess Hera flew across Mount Athos as she made her way to the island of Lemnos to meet Hypnos, god of sleep. Rising 6,670 feet (2,033 meters) above the northern Aigean Sea, Mount Athos always has been a distinctive landmark.
| References: Homer, Iliad book 14, line 229 |