sentences:  Cited February 2004 from The Perseus Project)
  
  The ancient town also garnered notice of Pliny the Elder who wrote that the shadow of Mount Athos could be seen in the town's forum on the summer solstice.Other authors of antiquity who note the town include Ptolemy and Stephanus of Byzantium.Modern day Myrina is built upon a shallow bay split into two by a promontory jutting out to sea and carrying the ruins of a Venetian castle.