All my life i struggled with my i dentity , i remember when i had to fill in forms of which ethnic group i belonged to, that was difficult and even when the teachers at class asked me what my name meant i always had to guess what my name meant and i used to guess that it meant peace and i was right. This dicovery was lead by a grave of a child named Salomina at the old Bela-Bela cemetary. When i saw the name Salomina, i asked myself many questions that no one could answer. I thought to myself maybe my name was mispelled and it was because it has an h at the end, which its not sopposed to. That made me curious and i started searching for answers, because one thing about being a guide you have to know where you come from before you tell people about other peoples culture.
i dicovered a whole new universe when it came to my name, i mean there is an island with my name, a municipality and marathon.This dicovery was lead by a grave of a child named Salomina at the old Bela-Bela cemetary
The name Salamis is probably derived from Salam (shalam), Phoenician for peace,[3] under which it was mentioned in Homer's writings. Some sources, however, say it was named after the nymph Salamis, according to legend the mother of Cychreus, the first king of the island).[4]
Greek Name:
| SalamiV
Salamis Of Salamis (island) |
SALAMIS was the Naiad Nymph of the spring, well or fountain of the town of Salamis on the island of the same name (in southern Greece)
She was a daughter of the River Asopos who was abducted to the island by the god Poseidon.
| PARENTS |
| [1.1] ASOPOS (Corinna Frag 654, Apollodorus 3.161, Pausanias 1.35.2)
[1.2] ASOPOS & METOPE (Diodorus Siculus 4.72.1-5) |
| OFFSPRING |
| [1.1] KYKHREUS (by Poseidon) (Apollodorus 3.161, Pausanias 1.35.2, Diodorus Siculus 4.72.1-5) |
"Of these nine daughters [of Asopos]... while Korkyra and Salamis and lovely Euboia were stolen by father Poseidon." - Greek Lyric IV Corinna, Frag 654
"Kykhreus the son of Poseidon and Asopos’ daughter Salamis." - Apollodorus, The Library 3.161
"It is said that the first to give this name [Salamis] to the island was Kykhreus, who called it after his mother Salamis, the daughter of Asopos." - Pausanias, Guide to Greece 1.35.2
"[In the temple of Zeus at Olympia are paintings] Salamis carrying in her hand the ornament made for the top of a ship’s bow." - Pausanias, Guide to Greece 5.11.5
"Asopos made his home in Phlios, where he married Metope, the daughter of Ladon, to whom were born two sons, Pelasgos and Ismenos, and twelve daughters, Korkyra and Salamis, also Aigina, Peirene, and Kleone, then Thebe, Tanagra, Thespeia, and Asopis, also Sinope, and finally Ornia and Khalkis ... Salamis was seized by Poseidon and taken to the island which was named Salamis after her; and she lay with Poseidon and bore Kykhreus, who became king of this island."480 B.C.
480 B.C. The Persians in their conquest to conquer all of Europe had taken part of eastern Greece. After the Battle of Thermopylae where Leonidas and 300 Spartan soldiers died courageously defending their ideals and their country the Persian fleet sailed to the Saronic Gulf and the Greek fleet sailed to Salamis.
The Persians anchored at Faliro Bay where their King Xerxes ordered halve of the fleet to sail to Corinth and the other halve to Attica and Elefsina.
200 Egyptian Trieris sailed to the Megara Bay to block the way of the Greek Fleet and the same time the Persian Army landed in Attica and Psitalia Island, (a small Island near Salamis) Xerxes ordered his servants to place his throne on a hill which looks over Salamis bay so he can watch the battle the hill is called Egaleo.
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