According to the "History" of Herodotus (who was an historian of ancient Greece), when the fifth-century B.C. Persian empire of the Achaemenid dynasty sent its forces to invade mainland Greece, its navy encountered a 'divine wind' off the Athos peninsula and was utterly destroyed, forcing the Persian army to defeat in chaos without ever having fought a battle.
古代ギリシアの歴史家・ヘロドトスの『歴史(ヘロドトス)』によれば、紀元前5世紀アケメネス朝ペルシア帝国の海軍が、ギリシア本土に侵攻しようとした際、アトス半島で「神風」にあって艦船が大破、ペルシャ軍は戦わずして潰走したとされている。