Bridge in the Parnon Mountains, Peloponnese (Greece)

 

The oleander plant is named after Leander, who swam the Hellespont nightly to see his lover, Hero. A tragic version of the myth suggests that Leander drowned while swimming, and Hero later drowned herself.

Greek myth 

Saint Paraskevi Bridge across the Pineios River in Tempi Valley, Thessaly (Greece)

The Vale of Tempe was cut through the rocks by the trident of Poseidon. It was home for a time to Aristaeus, son of Apollo and Cyrene, and it was here that he chased Eurydice, wife of Orpheus, who, in her flight, was bitten by a serpent and died.

Legends of Tempe Valley

Bridge over the Corinth Canal in Greece

"Don’t fortify the isthmus nor dig it. Because Jupiter made an island wherever he thought was right"

Prophecy of a Greek Oracle

about the canal

Charrilaos Trikoupis Bridge crossing the Gulf of Corinth between Rio and Antirio (Greece)

"For me, the most important thing is common sense. I have taught principles and I have perfected complicated calculation, but at the end of the day, nothing can replace good, common sense"

Jacques Combault

Bridge designer.

Bridge over the Corinth Canal in Greece

"At the beginning of the Isthmus is the place where the brigand Sinis used to take hold of pine trees and draw them down. All those whom he overcame in fight he used to tie to the trees, and then allow them to swing up again. Thereupon each of the pines used to drag to itself the bound man, and as the bond gave way in neither direction but was stretched equally in both, he was torn in two. This was the way in which Sinis himself was slain by Theseus."

Corinth in Ancient Greek Mithology